House and Senate negotiators say they've reached a tentative agreement on the five-year Farm Bill, but declined to offer many details. "With an incendiary proposal by House Republicans for strict SNAP work requirements apparently off the table, the $87-billion-a-year legislation would make few noteworthy changes in U.S. food and ag policy," Chuck Abbott reports for Successful Farming.
Insiders say the bill makes mostly minor changes to programs such as crop subsidies and expansion of the Conservation Reserve Program. "For farmers, the most welcome part of the bill would be the first chance since the 2014 farm law took effect to switch enrollment between the insurance-like Agricultural Risk Coverage subsidy and the traditionally styled Price Loss Coverage subsidy," Abbott reports.
Forest-management funding was one of the last points of contention. House Republicans, picking up on President Trump's view that wildfires were triggered by state forest management problems, wanted that addressed in the Farm Bill. "House Republicans and the Trump administration have been pushing to include provisions to scale back forestry regulations and allow expedited removal of dead trees brush, among other changes, but environmental groups and some Democrats say the proposals go too far," Ryan McCrimmon reports for Politico's Morning Agriculture.
Senate Agriculture Committee Chair Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and ranking member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., said the agreement must be vetted by the Congressional Budget Office, which could take til next week, Abbott reports.
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