1、 https:/crsreports.congress.gov Updated September 28, 2018Expiration of the 2014 Farm Bill: Some Potential Implications The farm bill is an omnibus, multi-year law that governs an array of agricultural and food programs. It provides an opportunity for policymakers to periodically address a broad ran
2、ge of agricultural and food issues. The farm bill has typically undergone reauthorization about every five years. In the past, farm bills have focused primarily on farm commodity program support for a handful of staple commoditiescorn, soybeans, wheat, cotton, rice, dairy, and sugar. Farm bills have
3、 become increasingly expansive in their topical scope since 1973, when a nutrition title was included. Other prominent additions include conservation, horticulture, and bioenergy programs. The 115th Congress could establish the future direction of farm and food policy, because many of the provisions
4、 in the current farm bill (the Agricultural Act of 2014, P.L. 113-79) expire in 2018. Recent farm bills have been subject to various developments, such as insufficient votes to pass the House floor, presidential vetoes, oras in the case of 2008 and 2014short-term extensions. The 2002 farm bill was t
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