The Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee says a large group of farmers and other stakeholders talked about their farm bill priorities in a listening session Friday. Glenn GT Thompson tells Brownfield the risk management safety net programs were very important to them. “That was a consistent message, to make sure that we’re protecting crop insurance going forward, and that was loud and clear from both, obviously, the producers but also the lenders.”
Thompson says helping farmers and processors secure an adequate workforce was also brought up Friday, and he says bringing back the Farm Workforce Modernization Act will be important.
