WASHINGTON, D.C. (RFD News) — The Senate Agriculture Committee is expected to make another attempt to pass the farm bill tomorrow as Congress returns from the August recess.
Committee Chair John Boozman told RFD-TV he spent the break traveling the country and speaking with farmers about conditions in the agricultural economy.
“It didn’t matter where we were at, we just heard all about how difficult it was and it didn’t really matter what you were growing. If you were growing something out of the ground, it was difficult and you were losing money, which is really a generational thing that we’re going through now that is making it so, so very difficult on our full farm community, not just our farmers, but rural America in general, because for most of our communities in rural America, farming is the vast majority of the economy.”
Boozman says he is hopeful the farm bill will pass tomorrow afternoon, with Sen. Mitch McConnell expected to return to Washington after being away since June due to illness.
