The current short-term extension of the farm bill expires at the end of September. The Senate bill attempts to help farmers on both fronts, by giving farmers more flexibility to use emergency government land and cost-sharing programs during droughts and floods. “I think every other farm bill that I’ve worked on in the 46 years I’ve been in the United States Senate has been a bipartisan bill,” Grassley told reporters . “Democrats should remain united and only support a Farm Bill that includes a clean two-year delay of the SNAP cost shift to states,” Booker said in a statement. A provision to approve year-round E15 in the House version of the farm bill nearly derailed the bill’s progress on the House floor, but ended up passing in a separate vote in May .