Choose your word. Every word fits as Republicans scramble down the road to shutdown. The House can do nothing until a Speaker is chosen.
They let the Farm Bill expire on September 30, so farmers? Here’s a heads-up! What are your chances of bankers authoring loans for spring planting if there is no crop insurance program?
Rural America’s risk could not be higher. Everything is at stake — tens of billions of dollars:
- Farm programs
- Internet access
- Rural water systems
- Soil conservation
- Clean energy
- Kids and pregnant women are going hungry, and more.
Temporary spending expires on November 17.
Ashley Murray, Missouri Independent: Farm bill stalled amid U.S. House speaker battle, delay of spending bills.