 But House leaders are focused on meeting a government funding deadline September 30th and want to complete spending bills first. Gilson argues passing a farm bill is a plus for both parties to show they care about rural America, but the political door is closing. In July with the convention, and then we have folks going back home to campaign and do job interviews. So we're going to really need some show of bipartisan unity here, which is to get a farm bill done, and that's hard.