Senate Ag Chair Debbie Stabenow repeated her threat to oppose a new farm bill if Republicans insist on taking funds from nutrition or conservation programs to fund it.
Stabenow told Agri-Pulse’s Ag and Food Policy Summit her earlier White House farm bill comments were “blown up and misinterpreted.” Then, she repeated them.
Ag Republican Chuck Grassley, confronted with Stabenow’s quote, had this to say.
Grassley says that’s up to her and Ag Ranking Republican John Boozman, who insists a farm bill like a House-advanced tax bill is still possible this year.
Stabenow agrees. But after months of talks and the elapsed ’18 law, already extended one year through next September, both sides remain dug in on seemingly intractable ground.
