The Daily Caller

The Daily Caller

No new farm bill: Is it really a national catastrophe?

Vincent Smith
Visiting Scholar, American Enterprise Institute

The expiration of the provisions of the 2008 farm bill on September 30 would seem to be a national catastrophe, at least according to a broad coalition of U.S. farm groups, Senator Debbie Stabenow (the chair of the Senate Agricultural Committee) and Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. So what cold, hard threats to the farm sector’s future do we face over the next three months?