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Source: NATIONAL SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE COALITION, 7/22/21
On June 30th, the House Appropriations Committee marked up and approved its fiscal year (FY) 2022 Agriculture Spending bill. The full House Appropriations Committee markup and approval followed the Agriculture Subcommittee’s approval of the funding bill on Friday, June 12. The agriculture appropriations bill includes funding for a wide range of farm and food programs, including conservation initiatives, beginning farmer and rancher training, and agricultural research. For FY 2022, the bill provides discretionary funding of $26.55 billion – an increase of $2.851 billion, more than 10 percent above FY 2021 but slightly below President Biden’s Budget request of $27.9 billion.
The full House of Representatives is expected to take up the agriculture spending bill the week of July 26th as part of a “minibus” combining the agriculture spending bill with 6 other appropriations bills. The agriculture funding bill is just one of the 12 total bills that appropriators must develop and pass every fiscal year, which unlike the calendar year, runs from October 1, 2021 – September 30, 2022. September 30, 2021 at midnight is the deadline by which Congress and the President must enact new spending legislation or a “continuing resolution” of current spending levels to prevent a government shutdown.
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