Next Focus for Agriculture: 199A Fix

One area lawmakers were not able to come to terms on to include in the package approved to keep the government operating was relative to the Section 199A issue created by a provision in the tax reform package. But one of the key players, Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., told reporters they are close to a solution. "We haven't gotten consensus within the stakeholder community on the language, but we have I think probably as good as we're going to get at a solution," Thune stated, without giving any details of the potential solution."What we found was trying to satisfy co-ops and private grain operators was a challenge, and trying to get both of them to agree on final language has been a real challenge." Expectations are the measure will be worked out in time to get it into the Fiscal 2018 spending plan that lawmakers will spend the next few weeks developing.