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Farm Bill provides risk management options
Over 200 farmers attended a Farm Bill Implementation Forum at Bowling Green State University on Friday, July 25.
Sponsored by Ohio Farmers Union the Forum was designed to provide insight into what the new Farm Bill provides and while complex, Joe Shultz, Chief Economist for the Senate Agriculture Committee says it also provides farmers with options.
“It does look a lot different than the previous Farm Bills, but I think that reflects the diversity of agriculture and really the strength of American agriculture,” said Shultz. “It will be a good bill and it offer some real options to producers.”
Shultz also says farmers will have plenty of time to study the options before signing up, sometime next year.
“We’ve also provided more tools for farmers to get educated, the Farm Bill provides some money for outreach and education meetings, we’re also providing some online decision making tools so producers can enter their data, their farm history online and get some good information about which decision makes the most sense for their operation,” Shultz said.
Audio: Joe Shultz, Chief Economist, Senate Agriculture Committee (4:25 mp3)
Brownfield’s Dave Russell also talked with Ohio Farmers Union President Joe Logan following the Forum at BGSU.
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