Hundreds of U.S. farm and agribusiness groups have urged Republican leaders in the House of Representatives to try again to pass the $500 billion, five-year farm bill that suffered an historic and unexpected defeat in June.
In a letter to House Speaker John Boehner on Tuesday, the groups asked for a fresh vote as soon as possible. They also opposed the idea, floated by a faction of fiscally conservative Republicans, of splitting the bill into two parts.
"We believe that splitting the nutrition title from the rest of the bill could result in neither farm nor nutrition programs passing, and urge you to move a unified farm bill forward," said the letter signed by 532 local, state and national associations and businesses.
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