The farm bill process was put on a shelf when Congress was trying to elect a new speaker.
With a full legislative agenda, lawmakers will have a difficult time completing the farm bill before the end of the year.
If the farm bill isn’t completed before the end of the year, it reverts to permanent law with a parity price based on the market from 1910-to-1914.
“If you ask a farmer if they would like $50 per hundredweight milk instead of $15 milk, they would like that for about three days until the markets are gone because that’s what will happen,” said Lucas Sjostrom, executive director, Minnesota Milk Producers Association.
