Farm Bill Discussed At Ag Issues Forum
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Capita Link, has been involved in
the construction of not only this
but also prior Farm Bills. Hebert
has noted “the complex interplay
between good public policy, poli
tics, and legislative design... it
makes for an interesting law
making process,” he said.
“We went into the Farm Bill
with a lot of people calling for
very basic, fundamental re
forms,” he said. “We ended up
with a commodity program that
didn’t change all that much.”
The net farm income, he said,
was not expected to grow signifi
cantly during the years of the
bill’s implementation.
“How did we end up with a
Farm Bill that hasn’t changed all
that much?” he asked. “The feel
ing is that this was not so broke
that it was worth making major
reforms.”
Payments, he said, are built
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into the value of the land, and
any proposals to change that sys
tem would change land values.
“The underlying tendency is not
to make major changes, which is
too disruptive,” he said. “We still
have an agricultural system that
delivers high-quality products
that are affordable and compet
itive in the marketplace.”
Legislation such as farm bills
“maintain a solid, stable agricul
tural system for this country, and
this bill will do that,” he said.
This year’s Farm Bill specialty
is the conservation provisions, he
said. The “big story,” he said,
was the more than 10-fold in
crease on working lands (as op
posed to wetlands conservation
or long-term land retirement op
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Participants of Thursday’s Agricultural Issues Forum
included, from left, regular attenders Luke Brubaker, Bru
baker Farms; Jeff Williams, Triple H Construction; key
note speaker Tom Hebert, Capita Link; Carissa Itle West
rick, environmental consultant; Mike Brubaker, Brubaker
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