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Ag committee leaders formally announce farm bill; managers’ statements are here

House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas, R-Okla., Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., House Agriculture Committee ranking member Collin Peterson, D-Minn., and Senate Agriculture ranking member Thad Cochran, R-Miss., have formally announced the release of the Agriculture Act of 2014.

A link to their joint statement is below.

The Hagstrom Report sent out a copy of the conference report a few minutes ago, and the link to download it is repeated here.

Also linked below is a document that includes the managers’ statements for each title of the farm bill. (Click on titles on the Table of Contents to navigate to each section.)

Congressional aides have warned that these statements describe how conflicts between the House and Senate were resolved, but do not describe those elements on which there were agreements. In other words, just because something is not in the managers' statement does not mean it is not in the bill.