United States Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
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Oct 28, 2026
Brad LubinSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So it's a challenge, and it's a political challenge as to – as to how we deal with it in the end.
Tony St. JamesHOST
And speaking of the Farm Bill, Senator Chuck Grassley from Iowa, member of the Senate Ag Committee.
Chuck GrassleySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Working with Senator Ernst and Representatives Hinson, Nunn, Miller-Meeks, and Feastra, we got phosphate and pot-aged fertilizers added to the critical minerals list.
Chuck GrassleySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We strengthened crop insurance and increased commodity support.
Chuck GrassleySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Iowa members in the House passed E15 legislation and also passed a farm bill.
Chuck GrassleySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Senator Ernst and I helped Senate Ag Committee advance the farm bill.
Chuck GrassleySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
That farm bill included E15 along the same lines of what the House did.
Chuck GrassleySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Now, I want to remind you, here's an example of every Democrat in the committee voting against this farm bill.
Dan GatesGUEST
And there's Gary Skiba on there, which we've recognized Mr. Skiba.
Dan GatesGUEST
And he was one of the individuals that was appointed by Governor Polis as a sportsman's rep and then didn't get confirmed through the Senate Ag Committee because the sportsman community griped him, bitched and complained enough that Mr. Skiba...
Dan GatesGUEST
Yeah, yeah.
Dan GatesGUEST
And Gary, you know, I mean, he worked for the agency for 20 some odd years.
Tony St. JamesHOST
But for those who don't know, your pathway to where you are today, which...
Tony St. JamesHOST
Make sure you throw in Senate Ag Committee in there as well.
Tony St. JamesHOST
But tell us your path.
Tony St. JamesHOST
Did it start on the farm and how did you get where you are today?
Matt WeinerGUEST
And I don't blame them for that, right? Like the problem that I think is missing from this conversation is that A, the timber industry is not excited about this bill because it doesn't give them access to the kind of large diameter trees that they actually want.
Matt WeinerGUEST
And Mark Heller wrote a good piece on this last year when the Senate Agriculture Committee was marking up the bill.
Matt WeinerGUEST
The timber industry doesn't see this as the win that people claim that they think it is.
Matt WeinerGUEST
And second, it ignores that the biggest risk to our forested landscapes right now is catastrophic wildfire.
Will EvansNARRATOR
And in our view, the fact that Borrello and Molotov are in the minority party in Albany discounts what actually makes a politician effective in the first place.
Will EvansNARRATOR
Borrello has made a habit during his more than seven years in the state Senate of crossing party lines to co-sponsor legislation sponsored by Democrats, particularly Senator Michelle Hinchey, chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee, that can benefit his district.
Will EvansNARRATOR
Borrello has also been able to advance legislative priorities like Kendra's Law or bail reform rollbacks while still opposing policies that many in the 57th Senate District also oppose.
Will EvansNARRATOR
Molitar, whose first term is coming to an end this year, is following the same model even as Molitar works through a party structure in Albany that rewards longevity.
Clinton GriffithsCORRESPONDENT
Democratic Ag Committee leadership is going to change regardless.
speaker_6SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
If Senator Michael Bennett becomes either the chairman or the ranking member of the Senate Ag Committee, we're going to see a big focus on Western producers.
Clinton GriffithsCORRESPONDENT
However, the next Congress shakes out, the question for rural agricultural voters remains.
Clinton GriffithsCORRESPONDENT
How does a country founded with such close ties to agriculture change if farmer voices continue to disappear?
Jessica DomelCORRESPONDENT
And we're told that because of that, Senate Republicans are pressing now for a last-minute farm bill, even if it's as a rider on another bill.
Jessica DomelCORRESPONDENT
Senate Ag Committee Chair John Bozeman of Arkansas recently shared this warning.
speaker_9SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We're in danger of losing the farm bill.
Jessica DomelCORRESPONDENT
Chairman Bozeman says his fear is that Democrats will write a different one if they take the majority in the midterm election.
John ThuneSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And after this election is over with, we'll figure out a way or a pathway, an avenue.
John ThuneSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Perhaps it rides on something else.
Jessica DomelCORRESPONDENT
Senate Ag Committee member Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa speculates what that something else could be.
Chuck GrassleySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We have a health, rural health package that we put together at the end of the year.
Greg DoudGUEST
We're not going to stop working on this until we get it done.
Tammi ArenderHOST
Greg, I know you guys were happy to see that the farm bill made it out of the Senate Ag Committee, but what are your non-negotiables when it comes to the Senate floor for a vote?
Greg DoudGUEST
Well, I think the key thing is we got most of what we needed in dairy in the big, beautiful bill.
Greg DoudGUEST
Now, there is a little bit of news here.
Greg DoudGUEST
We, at this meeting, are proposing some changes to the dairy margin coverage program and the dairy revenue program that we're talking to...
Greg DoudGUEST
the four corners of the House and Senate Ag Committees about that we'd like to see.
Greg DoudGUEST
I don't know where that's going to be going forward.
Greg DoudGUEST
You'll hear some of that coming out of this meeting of some things that we would like to update and change here.
speaker_12CORRESPONDENT
with eight on the House Ag Committee.
speaker_12CORRESPONDENT
Seven are senators, including five on the Senate Ag Committee side.
speaker_12CORRESPONDENT
Iowa Republican Randy Feenstra fought unsuccessfully to include year-round E15 in the House Past Farm Bill.
speaker_12CORRESPONDENT
He had this to say.
speaker_12CORRESPONDENT
Top House Ag Democrat Angie Craig also made an unsuccessful Senate run.
speaker_12CORRESPONDENT
Cutting SNAP also cuts farm income for America's family farmers.
speaker_12CORRESPONDENT
And I'm sure that you, like me, are saying, how so? The fourth ranking Democrat on the Senate Ag Committee, yep, you guessed it, Illinois, Dick Durbin, hailed a USDA funding deal in an earlier Congress.
speaker_12CORRESPONDENT
He had this to say back then.
Tyson Bertone-RiggsGUEST
It's and again, a bipartisan bill passed out of the House almost two years ago at this point with 60 plus Democrats voting for it.
Tyson Bertone-RiggsGUEST
We saw it pass out of the Senate Ag Committee on a bipartisan vote yesterday.
Tyson Bertone-RiggsGUEST
And now it's essentially a waiting action before the full Senate.
Tyson Bertone-RiggsGUEST
So it's a big bill.
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