House Ag Committee Focused Solely on Farm Bill

Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee Michael Conaway said for the next two years, his committee is “all farm bill, all the time.”

But he doesn’t expect many major changes, except perhaps in cotton and dairy programs, but Conaway noted he is open to new things.

“If you bring me a new idea you got to come with not only the new idea, what the impact is going to be, and what’s it going to cost and where are you going to get the money from. It’s mostly a closed loop. If I got to give your new idea money, then I am going to take it away from somebody else.”

Lawmakers are proposing new ideas for Farm Bill in the Senate, but those will have to be negotiated through both chambers.