Facing Crisis, US Farmers Seek New Legislation From Congress
Members of Congress entered 2025 optimistic that they could pass updated legislation to help farmers by the end of the year. They partially succeeded. But now, lawmakers fear that the government shutdown harmed the chances of finishing the job before Christmas as farmers continue to struggle.
"They are having a very difficult, challenging time," Rep. April McClain Delaney, a Western Maryland Democrat and member of the House Agriculture Committee, told The Baltimore Sun on Nov. 18. "Budgetary pressures, operational pressures, decimated markets."
It’s a crisis. Bankruptcies by small family farms last year spiked over 50% compared with 2023, according...
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