Texas A&M’s University’s Ag and Food Policy expert Joe Outlaw, who advises both parties on the House and Senate Ag Committees, says that he believes a new farm bill won’t get done until the summer of 2025.
Dr. Joe Outlaw is a professor and Extension economist in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Texas A&M University. He is an expert in ag and food policy and says that the farm bill process is filled with time and effort and takes months to write, pass, and enact. The shortest time frame he has seen the bill take shape in is nine months. With time already running short in 2024 because it is an election year, the clock is ticking.
That is Dr. Outlaw on the Farm Policy Facts “Groundwork” podcast. He says that he thinks the farm bill will take shape in summer 2025.
AFBF President Zippy Duvall is calling on Congress to lower farming costs and pass a new farm bill. However, Managing Director of Government Affairs Ryan Yates tells us there is a lot of work to be done.
One example of distance between the sides is a proposal by Senate Ag Chair Debbie Stabenow to shift more Title I funds to crop insurance and make producers choose between the two.
Democrats insist they won’t give up SNAP or climate investment dollars for farm programs with House Ag Democrats issuing a recent memo that says just that.
