American Farm Bureau Senior Director for Congressional Relations Mary Kay Thatcher told members of the Crop Insurance and Reinsurance Bureau this week that she expects 2015 to be “a challenging year for agriculture.”
“There seems to be a lot of emphasis on Capitol Hill about wanting to make budget cuts,” she explained. “We only have a couple of months before we see some of the barrages of hits on all kinds of farm policy issues through the budget process…We are very likely at some point this year to have some budget cuts we have to deal with.”
Talk of it is already happening with the cuts to crop insurance proposed in the president’s proposed budget, which ag groups are opposing. Interview with Mary Kay Thatcher, AFBF
2015 Crop Insurance & Reinsurance Bureau Annual Meeting Photo Album
