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The House didn't make many changes to the existing farm policy.
It didn't, for instance, expand ethanol use, as corn farmers wanted.
Still, farmers are glad to see progress.
Farm bills are supposed to last five years.
It's been eight since Congress passed the last one.
But Seth Meyer, former USDA chief economist, now at the University of Missouri, says the Senate isn't going to sign off on the House bill.
like the $187 billion cut to nutrition assistance programs that Congress passed last year.
Senate Democrats want to restore at least part of those cuts before signing off on farm subsidies.
For NPR News, I'm Frank Morris in Kansas City.
The House didn't make many changes to the existing farm policy.
It didn't, for instance, expand ethanol use, as corn farmers wanted.
Still, farmers are glad to see progress.
Farm bills are supposed to last five years.
It's been eight since Congress passed the last one.
But Seth Meyer, former USDA chief economist, now at the University of Missouri, says the Senate isn't going to sign off on the House bill.
Like the $187 billion cut to nutrition assistance programs that Congress passed last year.
Senate Democrats want to restore at least part of those cuts before signing off on farm subsidies.
For NPR News, I'm Frank Morris in Kansas City.
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