Grassley doubts new five-year Farm Bill to be approved in calendar year 2025
WASHINGTON — Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley says he’s not too confident a new five-year Farm Bill can get passed by the end of the year. The 2018 Farm Bill has now been extended twice.
During a conference call with ag reporters this morning, Grassley says time is running out for a new Farm Bill to get passed in calendar year 2025. “Look at the calendar. I don’t know how much we’ll be in session in August. So then you have one week off in the middle of September because of the two Jewish holidays. Then you have a week off in October because of Columbus Day. Then you have a week off the same week that Veterans Day is, then a week off for Thanksgiving, and ten days at Christmas. Not a whole lot of time left.”
Grassley says he doesn’t see Senate Agriculture Committee chairman John Boozman of Arkansas pressing to get a Farm Bill done. “Hopefully we get it done this year, but I don’t see the chairman of the committee working in that direction. In the House, the chairman of the committee wants to get a bill out of committee in September.”
A one-year extension of the 2018 Farm Bill was approved in late December to avoid federal farm payment programs reverting to rules established in 1938 and 1949.
