The U.S. Congress may need to pass a short-term extension of the country’s current farm bill, the largest food and nutrition spending package, amid delays drafting the next one, the top lawmakers on the Senate and House farm committees said on Thursday. The farm bill funds U.S. nutrition, conservation and commodity programs and is passed every five years. The current bill expires on Sept. 30. Senator Debbie Stabenow, chairwoman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, said “it would not surprise me” if lawmakers passed a short-term extension of the current farm bill, as has happened on occasion with past bills.
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