U.S. lawmakers have struck a deal in principle on the Farm Bill, the top agriculture lawmakers and senators said on Thursday, capping months of bitter partisan debate over the legislation to fund

With tariffs and an escalating trade war creating deep anxiety among farmers, both Democrats and Republicans from rural states are eager to pass a new farm bill before the current legislation expires at the end of September.

Farm subsidies are a menace, especially when they line the pockets of the wealthy.

The House Freedom Caucus delivered a gut punch to Republican leadership. They voted down and killed the farm bill. The HFC, which represents the conservative wing of House Republicans

The House on Friday rejected a five-year agriculture and food-stamp bill written by Republicans, reflecting the scrambled politics within the GOP’s ranks.

The House, in a striking display of Republican division, rejected a massive farm bill on Friday that would have imposed strict new work requirements on beneficiaries of federal food aid while continuing farm subsidies popular with rural voters.

Some of the Republican hardliners in the House are warming up to the farm bill because of the massive cuts it makes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or food stamps. Not so fast, say some conservative groups, for whom making people go hungry just isn't good enough.

On the road to winning Iowa's Republican Senate primary, state senator Joni Ernst opposed the five-year farm bill passed by Congress. Now, her stance on the legislation has become the focus of attacks from her Democratic opponent in the general election, Rep. Bruce Braley.

One of the few bipartisan measures passed by Congress this year, the farm bill recently has cropped up on the campaign trail as a partisan flash point.

Immigration reform that focuses solely on enforcement would cut agriculture production and cause a sharp rise in food prices, according to a new study released on Monday.

The study — which was commissioned by the American Farm Bureau, the nation’s largest farm lobby organization — said food prices would increase an additional 5 to 6 percent over the next five years if enforcement-only policies were put into place, because of a lack of workers to harvest crops. It would cost the agriculture sector as much as $60 billion over the same period.