Former House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas is hopeful the upcoming elections will switch the majority in the House. If that’s the case, Glenn “G.T.” Thompson would be the chairman of the agriculture committee. “If Republicans are in the majority, we’ll start with the 2018 bill as a base text of the farm bill. We’ll go through not just page-by-page or paragraph-by-paragraph, but literally syllable-by-syllable looking at what worked, what didn’t work and what needs to be done differently,” said Lucas. “Along with the economic environment, we’ll also consider how much pressure producers are under.”
