Hope remains for a new farm bill in 2025, but Pro Farmer Washington DC policy analyst Jim Wiesemeyer thinks there might be too much partisanship in the way. “There are very low odds you’ll have a stand-alone farm bill for the same reasons we had last year, and that’s a big difference between the two political parties on food and nutrition spending.” While farm bill passage is less likely, Wiesemeyer admits that it could happen via a reconciliation measure. “In the budget reconciliation measure that should be finalized, hopefully by Memorial Day, will include the extension of the 2017 Trump tax cuts and a number of other areas, energy policy, et cetera, but it could, and I emphasize could, include portions of the farm bill with perhaps an increase of the reference prices in Title I that are significantly needed.”
