Farm bill delay may not be all bad.

The article reports that Carl Zulauf, an Ohio State University farm policy expert, says that disagreements over the 2012 farm bill involve many aspects of policy discussions in the U.S. It cites a paper by Zulauf stating that much of the debate is about components, administration and funding of a U.S. safety net modernized for the 21st century. Zulauf expected that the drought of 2012 will lead to ad hoc disaster assistance to help livestock producers deal with higher feed prices.