Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue will attend a farm bill listening session in Texas next week. The listening session by the House Agriculture Committee will feature comments from Texas farmers on farm bill priorities. The “Conversations in the Field” is planned for 10:00 a.m. central time Monday, July 31st, at Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas. It follows a listening hearing last month at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, and a handful of hearings on Capitol Hill by both the House and Senate Agriculture Committees. House Agriculture Committee Chairman Mike Conaway earlier this year vowed to complete the 2018 farm bill “on time,” adding that completing the farm bill on time will avoid adding more uncertainty to an already strained farm economy.
