Senate Agriculture Chair John Boozman said Monday he plans to soon take up a five-year farm bill, regardless of delays a similar bill may face in the House.
Asked at an agriculture policy conference when he plans to move a measure through his committee, Boozman said, “Weeks, not months,” but did not offer specifics.
Lawmakers on both sides of the Capitol have struggled for the better part of three years to make a new agriculture policy bill reality, hobbled by partisan troubles, an always-full legislative calendar and shifting priorities as the second Trump administration replaced the Biden administration.
But Boozman, an Arkansas Republican, told agriculture groups not to mistake delays for inaction, as lawmakers and congressional leadership are in discussions about advancing the bill.
