Click the link to read the article on the Progressive Farmer website (Chis Clayton). Here’s an excerpt:
January 11, 2024
A bipartisan group of 16 U.S. senators representing ten western states on Thursday called on the leaders of the Senate Agriculture Committee to provide more resources to address long-term drought challenges in the region. The senators drafted the letter after conversations with Senate Ag committee staff have left them “concerned that drought provisions are at risk of not being included in the farm bill, a Senate staffer informed DTN…
Western farmers and ranchers need more resources to help conserve water, improve watershed scale planning, upgrade water infrastructure and protect the land from erosion. The farmers and ranchers in western states need a farm bill that provides support to conserve water, improve watershed scale planning, upgrade water infrastructure, protect land from erosion to help create more long-term resiliency to extreme drought conditions, the senators stated.