Both Senators in Kansas's delegation have called for the passage of the Senate Farm Bill. U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) – a member of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee – yesterday highlighted a number of Kansas agricultural priorities, including year-round E-15 sales, increased farm loan limits, strengthened trade promotion funding and his amendment to permanently transfer Food for Peace to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
“This matters to us, and we’re going to do everything we can to get an end product so we can negotiate with the House and get a Farm Bill to the President,” said Sen. Moran. “I love talking to farmers and ranchers in Kansas. They need certainty, and I encourage producers across the country to contact members of the Agriculture Committee and let them know how important it is to get this bill done.”
Kansas' other senator, Dr. Roger Marshall, agreed with his college in a separate statement.
"Well, it’s always been crop insurance, right? That’s always been first, second, and third to a Farm Bill, and we added $65 billion to the crop insurance in the Working Families Tax Cuts bill. This Farm Bill doesn’t solve everything, but it’s certainly a step back in the right direction. You think about the year-round E15: that’s about the equivalent of maybe a fourth or a fifth of all the corn that we export. You know, it’d be like having another trade partner that’s going to increase our exports by, say, 25 percent. There’s stuff in here for fertilizers by helping have more domestic fertilizers, so we’re not dependent upon foreign nations as well. The loan limits — especially for young starting farmers — there’s increased limits for those.
