As every day goes by, American Sugarbeet Growers Association Executive Director Luther Markwart sees fewer opportunities to pass a farm bill during the lame duck session. “What they’re really going to need to do is get some sort of disaster funding and funding to get growers through the next year or so because you’ve got a lot of you growers without a strong safety net on these major commodities,” said Markwart. “It’s going to be hard to get operating loans so they’re going to have to do something to carry them over.” If the farm bill is pushed into next year, Markwart hopes to see action early in the session. “The agenda is very busy, particularly in the Senate which has to confirm all of these nominees and there’s hundreds and hundreds of those that they’ll have to go through.” Listen to the RRFN interview with Markwart.
