‘Disappointed’

Amidst the shutdown drama in Congress, Minnesota Farmers Union President Gary Wertish voiced disappointment. “We’re really in uncharted times; I don’t think we’ve ever been this dysfunctional as we are right now in Congress.” A one-year farm bill extension was included in the 11th hour. Lawmakers will begin work on a new five-year farm bill in the upcoming year. “Now you go into the next Congress and there very easily could be less money in the baseline that what that had to work with at the present time.”