The head lobbyist for the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association says it’s becoming increasingly more difficult to write a farm bill.
Ethan Lane says it is a big, complicated process and the decline in bipartisanship and the continual need for farm bill extensions have spurred conversations in recent years that the next farm bill Congress writes could be the final one. “However, it does bridge two very important constituencies,” he says. “People who eat the food and people who grow the food.”
He tells Brownfield the marriage of those two groups remains critically important.
