The Farm Bill is the hot topic

Washington DC took us to the global seat of power, Capitol Hill.

We met with a number of policy advisors, politicians, directors of various ag agencies and an senator over two days of meetings.

The Farm Bill is the hot topic as it is currently undergoing its six year makeover. This piece of legislation all the US policy for food production and surprisingly the Food Stamps policy.The Food Stamps policy is essentially the social welfare policy.

The Food Bill will account for $1 Trillion over the next ten years. Approximately 25% of this will be allocated to farm support.

When pressed why the farm production policy is combined with social welfare, it seems history and strong political lobbying have kept the two together. This seems to be a challenging way to develop policy but hey, who am I to judge.

Two of our most senior government officials who presented to us both (independent from each other) stated that they believe this is one o the most promising times to be involved in food production. Demand is outstripping supply, new technology, climate change and so on. This theme has been consistent