The cool, wet spring has been a challenge for farmers who have tried to prepare and sow ground between storms. To help with reporting requirements, officials with the USDA Farm Service Agency office in Minnesota said that farmers have until July 15 to.

If the House farm bill makes it through Congress and is sent to the White House, senior advisors to the president are expected to advise him to veto it, due to the $20.5 billion cut in federal nutrition assistance programs that will be spread out over 10.