A farmer in Carroll County preps his field for planting. (Photo by Jared Strong/Iowa Capital Dispatch)
Agriculture policy experts in a press conference Wednesday hosted by Environmental Working Group said the massive budget reconciliation bill waiting for debate and approval in the Senate, would drive further dependency on farm safety nets, and have negative effects on small- and medium-sized producers.
The bill pulls money from the federal nutrition programs and to pay for federal farm subsidies, which the analysts argued would go to “some of the wealthiest people in farm country…