The state has a big stake in the long-delayed farm bill, so it needed to be ably represented on the huge 60-member conference committee assigned to reconcile the farm bill passed by the Senate in December with the one passed by the House last July. Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., was named to the panel in February. Rep. Jerry Moran, R-Hays, got the nod Thursday. Both have said they want to protect direct payments to farmers and the crop insurance program. The unenviable process will involve avoiding a presidential veto threat.
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Corporations will be well fed with this farm bill.
I was rather astonished to learn that when Challenger debris fell on Texas, the ranchers of the state got major disaster relief to the tune of tens of millions of dollars, even though not a single cow in the state was harmed.