With the expiration of the 2018 Farm Bill on September 30th, the question running through farm county is what programs have stopped and what programs continue?

 

“Some programs that are called orphan programs that effective September 30th basically stopped," said Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack.  "There are a couple of organic programs, there's a couple of conservation programs have stopped.  They're relatively small in terms of their impact, except to the people that obviously have benefited from them.”

 

While most farm bill programs, Vilsack noted, continue.

 

"They're either continued because they had continued authorization or they continue because they have resources that are unspent and available," Vilsack said.  "That basically does stop at the end of the year.  So, I think there is pressure on Congress to do one of two things either to pass the farm bill and get it done or to pass an extension. And I think there's no question one of those two things will happen.”

 

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