5-2-12: Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast

Congress has less than five months to re-write the massive farm bill.  The version that was just voted out of the Senate Agriculture Committee would replace direct payments farmers receive from the government with a subsidized insurance plan for their crops. We'll find out what the bill could mean for Maryland farmers, and for the environment, and what happens if it expires in  September.

Then: Baltimore band Lower Dens has released its second album, called Nootropics. Maryland Morning music critic Tim Kabara brings us a review.

Plus: McDaniel College president and pop-culture analyst Roger Casey looks at how women's roles on television have changed, and whether they've changed as much as society has.