Farm Bill: Looking to 2018

Divisions Created in Passing Legislation Could Linger

Jerry Hagstrom
By  Jerry Hagstrom , DTN Political Correspondent
Farm groups, agricultural lobbyists and government officials are looking forward to the next farm bill, trying to figure out what it will look like or there will even be one.
Lobbyists analyzed the political divisions created trying to pass the 2014 farm bill during a panel discussion Wednesday at the Consumer Federation of America's National Food Policy Conference. They see divisions continuing over what to do about food aid.

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Jerry Hagstrom