Thompson releases farm bill text, summaries 

House Agriculture Committee Chairman Glenn “GT” Thompson, R-Pa., today released the text of the farm bill.

Sometimes called the “skinny” farm bill because the One Big Beautiful Bill Act already includes increased funding for Title I commodity subsidies and crop insurance and some other programs, the bill is 802 pages long. 

Thompson said in a news release, “A new farm bill is long overdue, and the Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026 is an important step forward in providing certainty to our farmers, ranchers and rural communities.”

“We made historic agricultural investments last summer in the Working Families Tax Cuts (H.R. 1), but there are many key policy components that remain to be addressed. With that in mind, the House Committee on Agriculture will begin marking up a new farm bill Feb. 23.

“This bill provides modern policies for modern challenges and is shaped by years of listening to the needs of farmers, ranchers and rural Americans. The farm bill affects our entire country, regardless of whether you live on a farm, and I look forward to seeing my colleagues in Congress work together to get this critical legislation across the finish line,” Thompson said.

Rep. Angie Craig, D-Minn., the ranking member on the House Agriculture Committee, said today, “Our review of the legislative text is ongoing. Based on what I know, the Republican farm bill fails to meet the moment facing farmers and working people.”

“Farmers need Congress to act swiftly to end inflationary tariffs, stabilize trade relationships, expand domestic market opportunities like year-round E15 and help lower input costs. The Republican majority instead chose to ignore Democratic priorities and focus on pushing a shell of a farm bill with poison pills that complicates if not derails chances of getting anything done,” Craig said.

“I strongly urge my Republican colleagues to drop the political charade and work with House Democrats on a truly bipartisan bill to address the very real problems farm country is experiencing right now — before it’s too late.”  

Thompson has said the bill contains many provisions written by Democrats, but a Democratic analysis of the bill showed that of the 274 provisions that Democrats submitted to the Republican majority, 28 were accepted, for a 90% rejection rate.

Among many other provisions, the bill:

• Reauthorizes the Conservation Reserve Program and keeps the cap on acres at 27 million.
• Transfers the Food for Peace international food aid program from the U.S. Agency for International Development to the Agriculture Department and reserves 50% of the resources in the program for the purchase and shipping of U.S. food. 
• Raises limits for guaranteed operating loans for farmers. 
• Increases access to the Real Energy for America Program.
• Increases requirements for reporting farmland ownership by foreigners. 
• Increases funding for farm export promotion programs.
• Ties the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to the administration’s Make America Healthy Again agenda. 
• Integrates the ReConnect program that furnishes loans and grants for rural  broadband internet construction into the farm bill broadband program.
• Allocates research funding for specialty crops, innovation and crop insurance.
• Addresses state laws requiring standard living conditions for animals providing meat and eggs, such as California’s Proposition 12, by stating that states and localities cannot require living conditions outside their jurisdiction. 
• Allows auction owners to invest in packing facilities.
• Adds the agriculture secretary to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.
• Addresses Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) concentration in hemp
• Requires uniform pesticide labeling