Congressional lawmakers will try again to pass a new five-year farm bill in 2024, and some have already made out their New Year’s wish list of what to include.
Conservative Republicans Chip Roy of Texas and Iowa’s Chuck Grassley stressed in a recent letter to House and Senate leaders the need to pass an updated and improved five-year farm bill in 2024.
Grassley says that money for farm programs should come from savings on SNAP payments that should be reduced to pre-pandemic levels. That suggestion is something that most Democrats oppose.
Grassley also says that the new farm bill should put up guardrails for spending with the Commodity Credit Corporation or CCC fund.
Grassley argues the CCC has become a “slush fund.” Grassley also says, “Food security is national security.”
Grassley and Wisconsin Democrat Tammy Baldwin have introduced the Fertilizer Research Act to direct USDA to report on why fertilizer prices now make up more than one-third of farm input costs.
