The Senate is expanding a long-stalled disaster assistance bill to aid farmers and ranchers swamped by recent Midwest floods, but it’s still not clear when Congress will pass the legislation due to a dispute between the White House and House Democrats over funding for Puerto Rico.

With less than two months to go in 2018, American agriculture has endured a major drubbing by hurricanes and rainstorms in the Midwest, the Plains, and the coastal Southeast so far this year.