Agricultural groups and politicians have been responding to the developments all week, using the opportunity to advocate for farmers across the nation. From commending and applauding, to calling the developments “the bare minimum,” here’s what they’ve been saying. 

Grains Higher Overnight on Shutdown Talks. Senate Advances Bill to End Shutdown. Winter storms in Indiana and Illinois.

The shutdown has come as a double-whammy to farmers who were already dealing with the fallout of tariffs that went into effect earlier this year. Prices for soybeans plummeted because China, once the largest buyer of U.S. soybeans, stopped purchasing them in response to high U.S. tariffs, shrinking the soybean market for farmers.

A new stopgap spending bill that would reopen the government includes a one-year extension of farm bill programs that were left out of a budget reconciliation bill earlier in the year.

Colorado Sen. Byron Pelton, R-Sterling, said a number of sugar beet growers — as well as other commodity producers who face the same issues — have reached out unable to meet their loan deadlines.