Dwindling Farm Bill Hope: How AFBF thinks the next few weeks will shake out

The August recess is over and senators are back on Capitol Hill. Their first order of business is to get the appropriations bill passed, then the Farm Bill.

RFD-TV’s Tammi Arender gives us an update from Washington, D.C.

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