Source: SOUTHERN FARM NETWORK, 9/6/18

House Agriculture Committee Chairman Mike Conaway has offered what he calls a “significant compromise” on nutrition programs in the Farm Bill in hopes of creating a bill in conference that will pass both chambers of Congress. Conaway declined to get into specifics with Politico, but says last week he sent a proposal to his counterparts in the Senate offering a compromise on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. He says the offer demonstrates he’s “willing to move off House positions, but it’s got to make sense.”

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