On June 13th, the Senate Agriculture Committee passed the S. 3042, the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018. Commonly referred to as the Farm Bill, the bipartisan 5-year legislation encompasses a broad array of agriculture, nutrition, conservation, and forestry policy.
“The Senate Agriculture Committee’s bipartisan Farm Bill process is a reminder of how things should work in Washington – listening to the folks back home, working through issues with the other side of the aisle, then writing a good bill,” said Chairman Pat Roberts (R-KS) and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow (D-MI). “Today marks another important step in the road to getting an on-time Farm Bill enacted into law. We urge our colleagues to support this bill.”
In May, WEF and other members of the water sector sent a letter to the Chairman Roberts and Ranking Member Stabenow asking for the Committee to preserve Title II, the Conservation title, funding in the 2018 Farm Bill.
The legislation has the support of more than 115 agriculture, nutrition, conservation, and forestry groups.
The legislation now heads to the full U.S. Senate for consideration. A House floor vote on its version of the Farm Bill was delayed due to an unrelated issue with immigration legislation.
Click here to read the legislation, summaries, and amendments.
