In the four years since the current farm bill passed, more than 40 percent of the House seats have turned over. American Sugarbeet Growers Association Past President Dan Younggren sees that inexperience as an issue. “We’re moving into a whole new world as far as the people constructing, writing and getting this bill across the finish line,” said Dan Younggren, past president, American Sugarbeet Growers Association. House Agriculture Committee Chair Glenn ‘G.T.’ Thompson will addresed sugarbeet growers and wants the new farm bill passed before the current law expires at the end of September. Younggren says that will be a big lift. “If you had to go to Vegas and get some odds on it, I’d put it at 60-40 that it will get done, but I’m optimistic. We have some people saying there is no way it will get done (on that timeline) and there will be an extension.” The ASGA will be back in Washington, D.C. at the end of February to lobby Congress.
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