Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins says farmers and ranchers need a new five-year farm bill in 2025. It has failed now to get through Congress the last two times under the Biden administration, and it is a very, very big priority of mine, Rollins said Monday. But she says getting it across the finish line will be a complicated process. The farm part of the farm bill is only about 15-to-18%, and 60 votes are required to get it through the Senate. That means that it will need, depending on the Republicans, between 10-to-13 Democrat votes. There’s a lot of conversations that have to go on and a lot of negotiations that have already happened. U.S. Senator Joni Ernst says the cost for a new farm bill keeps going up as negotiations continue. Our farm bill had grown in cost from over $800 billion in the last farm bill to $1.5 trillion. The current farm bill extension expires in September.
Sec. Rollins calls on Congress to pass a Farm Bill
