President Trump delivers remarks at an event on the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”. Official White House Photo.

On July 4th, President Donald Trump signed the reconciliation bill into law. Although the bill faced scrutiny leading up to its final passage, here are some of the reactions from farm organizations, pointing out the positive impacts certain elements of the legislation may produce.

The American Soybean Association President Caleb Ragland said the legislation included priorities it supported, including securing key farm programs like crop insurance and tax provisions such as the 45Z Clean Fuel Production Credit. The legislation enhances key market programs and vital domestic markets for farmers.

The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association Senior Vice President of Government Affairs, Ethan Lane, said the legislation will protect family farmers and ranchers from the Death Tax. It will also avoid a massive year-end tax hike that could have put cattle operators out of business. It expands and protects many of the small business tax deductions that family producers rely on. The legislation also funds critical foreign animal disease prevention measures.

National Corn Growers Association President Kenneth Hartman, Jr., said the legislation included several longstanding priorities for corn growers. These include the extension of key tax provisions and investments in commodity and trade promotion programs. Corn growers will continue to advance other priorities that were not included, such as year-round E-15 and a mini farm bill.

The Specialty Crop Farm Bill Alliance, a national coalition representing growers of fruits, vegetables, dried fruit, tree nuts, nursery plants and other products, said investments included in H.R. 1 are a key piece of the puzzle to enhance the competitiveness of specialty crop growers. However, there is still work to be done as Senate rules prohibited the inclusion of many innovative policy initiatives that were proposed. These included mechanization and automation, modernizing procurement rules to include more high-value fruits and vegetables and reforming crop insurance to provide specialty crop growers with an effective safety net.

Read more responses from ag industry groups to the signing of the reconciliation bill here.