Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is sounding the alarm over the farm bill. “We’re quickly running out of time this fall for this Congress to come together to address the farm bill in a bipartisan way,” Vilsack said in a call with the American Farmland Trust. “Either we have a real bipartisan deal on this on a new farm bill or at a minimum an extension of the existing farm bill.” The 2018 farm bill expired a year ago but was extended until the end of last month. Most of the farm programs have funding through the end of this calendar year but would be reverted to permanent law in January. That would send price supports back to the parity levels from the 1938 and 1949 farm bills. “Frankly, the longer we wait, the harder it is to get this done.”
