Senate Agriculture Committee members filed a total of over 200 amendments ahead of Thursday’s farm bill markup, signaling a rocky debate ahead as lawmakers prepare to take up the legislation on Thursday. Not all the amendments, the bulk of which are from Democrats, are expected to be taken up in the Republican-led committee’s farm bill markup on Thursday. Boozman this week said it’s essentially a now-or-never time to advance the Senate farm bill. “For the last couple years, we've been talking about putting more farm in the farm bill, and that was a commitment that we made. Meanwhile, Boozman has said getting postponement of one year into the farm bill was hard work.