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Officially, the 2018 farm bill expired on October 1, 2023. Due to their inability to muster a bipartisan coalition to make needed changes in a new farm bill, Congress instead opted to extend the 2018 ...

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Anne Durham Smith is editor of the Daily Reporter. Columns such as this, published on a printed page or website section ...