The Latest Breaking News from Farm Bill

The federal Farm Bill is must-pass legislation that Congress debates every five years. It includes billions of dollars in farm subsidies and pays for food assistance programs.

CQ Roll Call reporters outline the latest on debt limit talks and where things stand on the effort to produce a farm bill by September.

Senate Republicans are eyeing unspent money appropriated in a 2022 law for use in a new farm bill that would replace one expiring Sept. 30.

Some farmers hope this year's federal Farm Bill brings more attention to the benefits of - and barriers to - precision agriculture technology.

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers, as they work on the 2023 farm bill, are staking out positions on nutrition and food stamps — the Agriculture Department’s biggest single program and a perennial source of contention.

Food stamps are on course again to be a flash point in the farm bill as some Republicans want to add work requirements for recipients.

WASHINGTON — Housing advocates are turning to this year’s farm bill in an effort to steer rural communities away from an affordable housing cliff ahead.

As property owners retire mortgages in an Agriculture Department program, the apartments lose their eligibility for aid.

Decades ago, when the late Harry Reid was relatively new to the upper chamber, a book arrived at our offices courtesy of the Democratic senator. It was “The Farm Fiasco” by libertarian author James Bovard, a piercing work that critically examined the labyrinth of subsidies, handouts, pork and market distortions…