Today, Governor Joe Lombardo joined 16 Republican governors in a joint letter to Congress expressing his concerns about the delayed passage of an updated Farm Bill, also known as the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018. In December 2018, President Donald Trump signed the bill into law and was reauthorized through September 2024. The bill provided support for farmers, ranchers, and forest managers by enhancing farm support programs, improving crop insurance, and maintaining disaster programs.
In the letter, the governors argue that the reauthorization of the Farm Bill is needed due to the skyrocketing cost of inflation, catastrophic weather events and increased interest rates have negatively impacted their ability to “provide for American and feed the world.”
The governors wrote:
Domestic agricultural production is a matter of national security. If a country can’t feed itself, fuel itself, or fight for itself, then it cannot survive. It is imperative that the United States not become dependent on other countries for our food supply, while we have the best farmers and ranchers in the world right in our backyards.
Our nation’s agriculture industry is in trouble and if meaningful support is not provided soon, the well-being of the nation is at risk. Reauthorization of a Farm Bill and immediate assistance in the interim will allow farmers and ranchers to do what they do best—provide for America and feed the world.
We collectively request that Congress fulfills its obligation to protect and revitalize the agriculture industry before it’s too late. Any delay would directly impact every community in America.
Read the full letter here.
Signatories include: Governor Kay Ivey (AL), Governor Sarah Sanders (AR), Governor Brian Kemp (GA), Governor Brad Little (ID), Governor Eric Holcomb (IN), Governor Kim Reynolds (IA), Governor Jeff Landry (LA), Governor Tate Reeves (MS), Governor Mike Parson (MO), Governor Greg Gianforte (MT), Governor Joe Lombardo (NV), Governor Mike DeWine (OH), Governor Kevin Stitt (OK), Governor Henry McMaster (SC), Governor Bill Lee (TN), Governor Spencer Cox (UT), Governor Jim Justice (WV).
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Nevada has great potential for agriculture and energy. It would help diversify economy and help USA food and energy independence.
Fernley potatoes, melons. Pahrump Corn. Garlic and onion in Genoa area. A geothermal drying facility is in Fernley and was drying garlic hauled up from California Imperial Valley. Gourmet Tomatoes grown in green house in North Las Vegas using waste heat from co-generation facility. Time for Nevada to tell gaming they are not the only game in the state.
Oil around Tonopah and Ely, road oil refinery in Tonopah.
Unfortunately these government handouts generally go to big corporations who take advantage and ruin small communities, yet allow the local good old boy and girl politicians to make bank. No thanks.
Farmers do not need handouts. They need deregulation and the federal government to return Nevada's land to Nevada.
If they would leave us alone, farmers would do fine. We could innovate like Israel and make the desert bloom with real organically grown food and have family farms full of millionaires feeding the world.
We would leave Communist California's agriculture in the dust.