House Republicans are planning to revive farm bill negotiations in January after failing to garner enough political will to pass a new deal by the end of the year, as they’d initially hoped.
House Agriculture Chair G.T. Thompson (R-Pa.) said in an interview that he wants to get a markup on the calendar ahead of a Jan. 30 funding deadline, though he acknowledged it may be too complicated to attach the farm bill to new spending legislation.
The punt to January means Congress will have gone a third year without making needed updates to critical agriculture policies, creating fresh uncertainty for farmers who’ve been pummeled by high input costs, rising inflation and President Donald Trump’s tariff wars.
Republicans passed extensions of major farm bill programs in a recent shutdown-ending stopgap package and included improvements to certain programs in their tax and spending package in July.
