Senator Chuck Grassley issued the following statement about the House farm bill payment limits provisions. Grassley has worked with the Center for Rural Affairs to implement a hard cap on farm payments in the upcoming farm bill. He has introduced legislation with Senator Byron Dorgan to would set a limit of $250,000 for farm payments in an attempt to better target farm program payments to family farmers.
"As much as I appreciate what Chairman Peterson was trying to do in the House farm bill, the bottom line is that it isn’t reform. In fact, it's a step backwards. Big farmers will continue to get bigger and young and beginning farmers will continue to be shut out. The Senate needs to step up and pass a real cap that the public has been asking for."