Bustos Wants 5 Yr. Farm Bill to Stabilize Agriculture
By: Eugene Daniel
Updated: February 20, 2013
PEORIA - Congresswoman Cheri Bustos is chiming in on the future of local
agriculture.
The newly elected congresswoman toured the Peoria Ag Lab Wednesday. Bustos
is now a member of the House Agriculture Committee and says it's important that
agriculture in the region is stabilized.
She says that starts with passing a five year farm bill, and she hopes
her role on the committee will help to find a solution and get a farm bill
passed.
"The farmers deserve certainty. And if you look
beyond the agriculture industry, business deserves certainty. Families deserve
certainty, and when you're facing things like sequestration, budgets not
passing, the fiscal cliff coming way too often; you know that doesn't give
anyone certainty," said Bustos.
Bustos will meet with local small business owners Thursday. She also says
government needs to work harder to avoid a series of federal budget cutbacks in
the rate of growth, because that would hurt more than federally funded programs,
including agriculture.
