Source: David Bennett, Delta Farm Press, SOUTH EAST FARM PRESS, 5/3/12
There is no argument that the farm bill passed out of the Senate Agriculture Committee last Thursday was bipartisan.
It was not, however, regionally inclusive as all four senators on the committee from the South — Arkansas’ John Boozman, Georgia’s Saxby Chambliss, Kentucky’s Mitch McConnell and Mississippi’s Thad Cochran — voted nay.