Senate Ag Chair Says Farm Bill Will Be Difficult

Randall Weiseman October 23, 2006 General, Georgia

Senate Ag Committee Chairman Saxby Chambliss of Georgia says the 2007 farm bill will be the most difficult of any Congress has ever written and at this point no one is sure what it will look like.

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