One South Dakota farm leader says he thinks there will be a new farm bill during the lame duck session of Congress this year, but it will have less money. Farmers Union President Doug Sombke says that is due to the 3.7 billion in estimated ag related losses caused by hurricane damage.
He says one major concern he’s hearing about is less funding for conservation programs in the new farm bill.
Sombke says farm bill authors need to find some way to support farmers enough that they don’t keep going deeper in debt.
Sombke doesn’t see any way a farm bill will pass that includes the stringent work requirements for SNAP called for in the House version of the measure.
