Amid the uncertainty as to when the next farm bill will be passed, Bart Fischer, co-director of the Agricultural and Food Policy Center at Texas A&M, discusses two topics experiencing ongoing debate with legislators that could have a big effect on growers’ bottom line.
 
The first debate Fischer spotlights is over an update to base acres.  “There’s nothing simple about base acres,” he says. “It’s important to distinguish a few things: one is mandatory versus voluntary, and the other is updating versus reallocating.”
 
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