Farm bill talks are ramping up again and Callan and Associates Founder and CEO Jim Callan says next week’s possible meeting of the House Rules committee will have a lot of amendments to sort through. “Once amendments have been filed, they’ll be reviewed and some will be thrown aside, and many will be considered. So, it will be up to the Rules Committee to determine the number of amendments.” That could also include an amendment to federal crop insurance. “There’s always a concern that there could be some efforts to restrict payments to federal crop insurance. And we could see an amendment in that regard. There has been, over the recent years, strong bipartisan support for federal crop insurance. The administration, in its 2027 budget, is proposing no cuts to crop insurance. So, all that’s good and points to a positive result, although we still have to be vigilant.”
