Lawmakers are on recess this month, but specialty crop growers hope they return to the hill with a renewed push to complete a five-year Farm Bill.
The Northwest Horticulture Council knows that there are a lot of moving parts in agriculture right now and urges you to speak up if you need help.
According to Riley Bushue, “Regardless of their commodity, but certainly for apples, cherries, and pears, which we’re focused on, they should just touch base directly with their county FSA office. The staff there does Yeoman’s work pulling all this stuff together and knows the ins and outs of all these programs best and can help kind of guide growers through and get information from growers that they need to make this all happen.”
Bushue says that he is hopeful a new Farm Bill can get through this year.
House ag lawmakers are hoping to get their version to the floor sometime next month when they return from the August recess.
House Agriculture Committee Chairman “GT” Thompson is pushing a “Farm Bill 2.0.”
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