Lapsed Farm Bill Would Risk ‘Parade of Horrors': Farm Briefing

Doom. Gloom. Vats of spoiled, government-purchased milk with nowhere to go.

Everyone has a different idea of what life without a farm bill would look like. Nobody wants to find out who’s right.

“Letting it expire—that’s not an option,” said House Agriculture Chairman Glenn “GT” Thompson (R-Pa.) at the start of his tenure last month. The chairwoman of the Senate panel,
Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), echoed the same thought.

I set out to figure out why so many people talk about a world without a farm bill like it’s Armageddon. Without a farm bill or an extension past Sept. 30, ...