To be an effective safety net, the National Association of Wheat Growers is seeking additional budget authority for Farm Bill Title I commodity programs. NAWG CEO Chandler Goule said farm programs have not kept up with the cost of production. “The Congressional Budget Office has already come out with their farm baseline and basically cut Title I by about $1.3 billion and that is a significant hit, basically meaning we are not going to be able to increase the PLC or other safety net programs.” With the rising cost of production, NAWG is seeking higher reference prices in the new farm bill. Nearly half of the House and 20 percent of the Senate have never voted on a farm bill which only complicates the process. “What we’re doing now is educating them on why we need a farm bill. We’re not drilling down into ARC and PLC, CRP and EQIP, because they’re still trying to figure out what this big bill does. Educate, educate, educate; then we’ll go back and go down into the details.”
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