Frank Lucas

Oklahoma Farm Reports' Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster Ron Hays caught up with Congressman Frank Lucas at Express Ranches during an event featuring Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins. The discussion touched on the New World screw worm issue, but Hays and Lucas also talked about the 2025 Farm Bill, especially what has been done thus far in the "Big Beautiful Bill." Lucas tells Hays it was good to get a lot of the work done in that vehicle- but what some of what some are calling Farm Bill 2.0 still needs to be done.

Lucas explained that the major funding portion has been secured. "Probably 80% of the funding that's necessary to fund farm programs for the next six years was included in the Big Beautiful Bill" at the tax relief package.