Base Acres News Today

The House Ag Committee on Thursday will mark up the House farm bill. House Ag Chair GT Thompson told AgriTalk the panel will have the votes to clear the panel, but he has yet to receive any firm Democratic support.

“It’s something that we care about in South Dakota mostly because a lot of our acres came from pasture ground.”

The corn was a couple days away from tasseling, and Rix had done a little side dressing the week prior, before the corn got too tall.

Farmers like Caleb Ragland are missing out on a big part of the farm bill’s safety net, and lawmakers are struggling to figure out what to do about it.