The continuing resolution recently passed by Congress included a short-term spending bill, disaster aid and a one-year farm bill extension. “It’s never exactly the way you want it, but we made some major improvements to it,” said North Dakota Senator John Hoeven. “In terms of the overall legislation, we cut it from about 1,500 pages where it started down to about 100, knocked a lot of stuff out of there that should not be in there and so that’s real progress.” One thing lost in the bill was year-round E-15. Hoeven believes that will be addressed in a new farm bill.
