A federal law known as the “farm bill” expires this year. It aims to help ensure we have enough food, feed, fuel and fiber and touches rural, suburban and urban Illinois every day in many different ways. What’s it all about?
- Crop insurance provides risk management on 19.8 million of Illinois’ 24 million cropland acres.
- In the last fiscal year, nearly 2 million Illinoisans received farm bill SNAP benefits totaling $5.75 billion. This averaged almost $450/month per household.
