Ag leaders don’t want reconciliation bill

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Farm leaders are unlikely to propose cuts to farm programs during House Agriculture Chairman Collin Peterson’s upcoming hearings on the next farm bill unless there is a real threat of reconciliation, key lobbyists said during the recent Commodity Classic, a meeting of corn, soybean, wheat and sorghum producers in California.

By: Jerry Hagstrom, Special to Agweek