Now that President Donald Trump’s Once Big Beautiful Bill has been signed into law, the next priority of ag advocates is getting a “skinny” farm bill passed. The existing 2018 farm bill has already ...

Officially, the 2018 farm bill expired on October 1, 2023. Due to their inability to muster a bipartisan coalition to make needed changes in a new farm bill, Congress instead opted to extend the 2018 ...

Sens. Lee and Booker introduce a bill to reform the EQIP, aiming to reduce wasteful spending and aid small farmers.

A new stopgap spending bill to reopen the government also extends key Farm Bill programs for one year—covering the provisions left out of July’s budget package. While the Senate waits on the House to ...

The 2018 farm bill expired at the end of the fiscal year again, after having been extended twice by Congress. This year, Sept. 30 came and went without much fanfare on the farm bill front. In part, ...

For the better part of three decades, Congress has consistently relegated the Farm Bill to a “Food Stamp Bill” — rapidly expanding and elevating social welfare while reducing production agriculture ...

The large reconciliation bill, or the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill,” was passed by Congress and signed into law in early July. Some portions of this legislation, such as future limits to some ...

It looks like Washington is about to do what recently seemed a far-off dream: actually enact a farm bill. From a farm-reform perspective, the bill that the House passed and the Senate is now debating ...

An upland bird habitat buffer on land owned by farmer David Roehm that was part of USDA's Conservation Reserve Program in 2015. (USDA photo) Authorization for the Conservation Reserve Program and ...

The lengthy shutdown of many services provided by the federal government ended on Nov. 12 when a “continuing resolution” bill was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Trump. The federal ...

Farmers and ranchers are natural planners. From mapping out our daily to-do lists to strategizing next year’s planting, we are always thinking ahead. Preparation is fundamental to what we do, but with ...