John Boozman

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.

Senate Ag Committee Chair John Bozeman of Arkansas recently shared this warning.

We're in danger of losing the farm bill.

Chairman Bozeman says his fear is that Democrats will write a different one if they take the majority in the midterm election.

So it's easy to go and visit with them and just tell them what we've got on our minds lately and Of course, I know, you know, the most pressing issue right now is getting the farm bill out of the Senate Ag Committee.

Chairman Bozeman is very focused on that.

And as Joe said, hopefully that will have a good outcome here in just an hour or so.

And then they can get to work from there hopefully before the end of the year.

I was up here with Farm Credit Council and Again, advocating for the Farm Bill, but because there are still a lot of pieces left to do in the Farm Bill that weren't done in the One Big Beautiful Bill that directly impact us and impact our borrowers, and that's credit title in particular.

So that's really why my original intent to come up here, my original purpose, but also got to drop in on some of the meetings with the rest of the group and visit about Farm Bill in general too.

We've got to thank Chairman Bozeman, first of all, for getting the one big beautiful bill across the finish line there and getting these reference prices reset.

That's going to help.

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This Farm Tag segment features Mark Belter, North Dakota Corn Growers Association board member and Leonard Farmer.

Mark, you recently represented the North Dakota Corn Growers Association during a recent Farm Bill Roundtable with Senator Hovind as well as Senator John Bozeman.

Visit with me really about the priorities of corn when we talk about meeting in front of these senators and really the push when we talk about year-round E15 and making sure we have strong markets.

Well, of course, they were there.

That could tilt some votes, but yes.

Before this program came out, Bozeman, Senate Committee Chairman, Republican from Arkansas, And G.T. Thompson, Republican from Pennsylvania, the House Ag Committee chairman, they were pushing for $17 to $17.5 billion additional farmer payments.

Now, Trump wanted $11 billion, so there's your spread.

This is just those fuel costs, but I'm telling you, all this, it's a lot of money, but it's still, I mean, I rankle when I see this is a bailout of farmers, and no way is this a bailout, because of all this $50 to $53 billion or more, Farmer Aid, you're still, the cost side, it's still only about 92 or 93 percent of those additional costs that we've seen.

We like to talk about food quite a bit.

So given that we're here at the State Fair, and keep in mind, I asked Senator Bozeman this question the other day.

What is your favorite fair food?

So my favorite fair food, I do like the funnel cakes.