Saturday 10th May 2025

There’s concern among farmers a new farm bill is far from completion.

Jeff Jorgenson, a cow/calf producer who grows corn and soybeans in southwest Iowa, tells Brownfield there are a lot of headwinds.

“The shell game as I call it, just moving money from here to there. The trouble is somebody has to lose for somebody to gain, or one commodity to gain. And that’s not a good place to be when you’re going into the farm bill is pitting agriculture against another commodity group.”

Tim Waibel grows corn, soybeans, and raises hogs near Courtland in south-central Minnesota and suggests the process doesn’t have to be complicated.

   

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published.

You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <s> <strike> <strong>

*