Today Marks the 800th Day Anniversary Since the Farm Bill Expired
Iowa’s Republican Representatives continue to fail rural Iowa
Des Moines – Today marks the 800th day since the Farm Bill expired. That’s right — more than two years have gone by since the Farm Bill should have been replaced. Iowans haven’t seen a new and updated Farm Bill since 2018, and yet Randy Feenstra, Ashley Hinson, Zach Nunn and Mariannette Miller-Meeks are more focused on cutting health care, giving huge tax breaks to billionaires, and giving Argentina billions of dollars than ensuring Iowa’s agricultural industry has the certainty it needs.
The costs of failing to work across party lines and get a new Farm Bill done are clear:
- CBS News: Iowa farmers’ incomes to decline amid trade war, no farm bill allocations, report finds
- Des Moines Register: With falling profits, Iowa farmers facing ‘extreme financial distress,’ more bankruptcies
- KWWL: Iowa farmers urge modernized Farm Bill for long-term stability
- Des Moines Register: Big harvest no comfort to Iowa farmers, who worry about another Farm Crisis
“The one thing Iowa farmers need is a stable and concrete policy so they can make financial decisions,” said IDP Chair Rita Hart. “Chaotic tariffs, high input costs driven by corporate consolidation, and Republicans’ ‘go big or go home’ policies are damaging rural Iowa’s economy. We need a new Farm Bill to give certainty to Iowa producers, and Republicans are clearly not making that happen.”
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