By Carah Hart
Brownfield
The co-director of the Agricultural and Food Policy Research Center at Texas A&M University expects Congress to combine natural disaster relief with farm bill commodity program price supports this year.
Bart Fisher tells Brownfield its important lawmakers help farmers, because even if Congress passes a new farm bill in the lame duck session, it kicks in with the 2025 crop year and any farm bill assistance wouldn’t come until October 2026.