House Ag Committee Chairman Michael Conaway (R-Texas) would like to have the farm bill on the House floor during the week of 14 May. He is hoping that all the farm meetings held in districts during the recent congressional recess will have helped tee up the bill for the House to consider. The coming days will be dedicated to the whip process of rounding up votes with its speed and outcome likely determining the legislative schedule. As previously noted many times, the two major program issues were cotton and dairy, top commodities for the districts of the chairman and Ranking Minority Member Collin Peterson (D-Minnesota), respectively. Those were fixed in February’s emergency appropriations bill, and that took some of the pressure off...

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