2023 Farm Bill discussions are heating up and Ethan Lane, Vice President of Government Affairs with NCBA says funding for programs will be flat at best.
“Or probably a reduced funding environment, more likely,” he says. “There’s going to be some real hard looks and sharpened pencils at which programs are really working for producers, which programs need to be shored up, and which programs really aren’t getting done what we need to get done.”
He tells Brownfield the Livestock Risk Protection program is one cattle producers would like to see reauthorized in the 2023 Farm Bill.
Focusing on farm bill programs that work for cattle producers