The extension of the 2008 Farm Bill last week for the rest of this fiscal year preserves the once-threatened budget baseline for writing a new bill. But a bigger budget threat still looms. The mighty budget baseline - whose annual readjustment was once the greater fear of ag lawmakers if 2012 Farm Bill work spilled into this year - is no longer the big threat. American Farm Bureau Senior Economist Bob Young on the Congressional Budget Office calculation of available farm bill funding