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Congress recently approved a multi-billion Farm Bill that included a major Rural Development title. The bill also included many billions of dollars in new, additional spending. Did the congressional delegation from the Northwest consider using renewal of the Farm Bill as an opportunity to fund Timber Payments as a part of the Rural Development title? After all, specialty crop farmers and others insisted on new aid for their sectors as a condition of supporting reauthorization of the Farm Bill.

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