Leader Thune on CRP Improvement Act: The Farm Bill Supports America’s Communities with Water Infrastructure, Rural Development and Healthcare

RUSH EXCERPT:
THUNE: Thank, you mister president. As president, America’s farmers and ranchers got some good news at the end of last week. After a lot of hard work from members of the agriculture committee, chairman bozeman release the tax to a five year farm bill which is slated for a mark up tomorrow and will, I hope they had a soon to the floor. As present as someone who hails from an egg state and has been part of the drafting of now five farm bills, I know how important the farm bill is and how much work goes in to getting it right. As I made clear at the start of this Congress, America’s farmers and ranchers our priority for the Senate majority that started last year with the work families, tax cuts which strengthened the farm safety net, bolstered critical farm programs and delivered to actually to America’s agriculture producers, including relief from the unfair death tax and making be one. 90 nine, a deduction permanent. And it continues this year with this farm bill which builds on the important measures and the working families. Tax cuts to give farmers and ranchers certainty and in the future, after the working families, tax cuts raised reference prices last year. This farm bill makes further improvements to commodity programs, as well as crop insurance, cornerstones of the farm safety net. It modernizes farm loan programs to get America’s next generation of farmers and ranchers off to a strong start, and it strengthens other programs that producers depend on. It improves the emergency assistance for livestock program so that it covers the cost of hauling, feed or water and opens the program to producers.”