The Biden administration's Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 budget arrives today and contains hefty spending for FY 2022 and lots of budget red ink.
For agriculture, the key focus will be on what the plan offers for a spending plan at USDA and what kind of spending increases for areas like conservation that might be included. The focus there will be on what kind of signals, if any, the administration opts to send relative to using those programs to address climate change.
With the Democrats in control of the House and Senate, it ups the odds the Biden budget plan will be able to get through. But there will be changes as lawmakers often want to put their own stamp on certain areas of any spending plan. Even the budgets proposed by the Trump administration were not adopted lock, stock and barrel when Republicans held both the House and Senate.