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Farm Bill Now! Rally Speakers Announced

Agricultural leaders, farmers and ranchers will come together at the Farm Bill Now! rally on U.S. Capitol grounds Sept. 12 to encourage Congress to pass a five-year farm bill before current farm programs expire at the end of September.

The rally will feature comments from members of the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives as well as leaders from a broad range of farm, conservation, energy, consumer and nutrition organizations.

"The sheer magnitude of the diversified support for this rally is a testament that, while we may all have wide-ranging and oftentimes divergent policy priorities, our primary policy at this critical moment in time is to see a complete, five-year farm bill passed into law by the end of September. I'm hopeful that our unified voice gets heard by Congress loudly and clearly at Wednesday's rally," said NFU President Roger Johnson.

Johnson will serve as a master of ceremonies alongside Bob Stallman, president of American Farm Bureau Federation, for the event. The organizations represent the nation's two largest general farm groups.

Organizational speakers will include Fred Yoder, representative of 25x'25; Daren Coppock, president and CEO of Agricultural Retailers Association; Ambassador Tony P. Hall, executive director of Alliance to End Hunger; Bob Stallman, president of American Farm Bureau Federation; Jon Scholl, president of American Farmland Trust; Steve Wellman, president of American Soybean Association; Gene Schmidt, president of National Association of Conservation Districts; Bing Von Bergen, first vice president of National Association of Wheat Growers; an elected county official representing National Association of Counties; Sally Greenberg, executive director of National Consumers League; Garry Niemeyer, president of National Corn Growers Association; Roger Johnson, president of National Farmers Union; Ken Nobis, president of Michigan Milk Producers Association; Robert Guenther, senior vice president of public policy.

The event has been endorsed by more than 80 organizations representing a broad range of associations and coalitions representing commodity crops, livestock, dairy, specialty crops, state and local governments, minor crops, energy and biobased product groups, farm cooperatives and financial groups.