Speaker Johnson plans to attach an extension of the farm bill to a stopgap spending bill to fund the federal government.

A group of GOP governors is asking Congress to pass a new version of the massive bill rather than extend the “outdated” 2018 bill another year.

Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry (R), along with 16 other Republican Governors across the United States, signed a letter urging the U.S. congressional leadership to pass a new federal farm bill, following the expiration of the previous iteration on September 30,