Earlier in the year there was an attempt to change part of the Farm Bill. It was a move opposed by Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley. But now it's been reopened and Grassley says he'll try to take advantage of it.
For years he's tried to fight to tighten farm payment limits, capping them at $250,000 per farm, which he says would save nearly $400 million.
That ended up in both House and Senate versions of the farm bill but was taken out in committee.
But with the just enacted spending bill, commodity certificates were brought back without payment limits.
Grassley says this is a new chance to curb that, "The principle that a farm bill should be opened up in the middle of the five years that it's supposed to be operational. And the way we argued successfully so we didn't take $3 billion out of crop insurance has been violated now and it gives me an opportunity to go back and try and accomplish some of the things I want to accomplish."
Grassley blames southern producers and lawmakers for getting certificates back up, "They were done away with in 2008 because they weren't needed with a whole new two programs to support agriculture. So it's just a strong organization. Southern agriculture trying to get more for its people and Midwestern agriculture doesn't benefit from it."
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