Sharon Oetting farms 700 acres of corn and soybeans near Concordia, Mo. The Thanksgiving holiday gives her and her friends and neighbors a chance to celebrate a strong agricultural economy and a good harvest. If only Washington would get its act together. Two months after it officially expired, the nation’s overarching food and nutrition legislation — commonly known as the farm bill — remains locked in a bitter stalemate in Congress. Negotiators had hoped to finalize a new farm bill by Christmas; instead, talks have stumbled again, and hope is fading for a solution in the next month. That means Oetting and her neighbors have little idea what the government has in store...
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