Agriculture

Food for Peace and Agricultural Export Promotion Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1990

Food for Peace and Agricultural Export Promotion Act of 1990 - Title I: Food for Peace (Public Law 480) - Mickey Leland Food for Peace Act - Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to extend through 1995 the authority to enter into agreements to finance the sale of agricultural commodities or provide famine relief assistance. Declares it U.S. policy to increase the level of food aid to developing countries through the use of agricultural commodities, and local currencies generated by the sale of such commodities, to: (1) combat world hunger and malnutrition; and (2) expand export markets for U.S. agricultural commodities. Allows the President to forgive debts owed to the Commodity Credit Corporation by certain least developed countries in specified circumstances. Authorizes the President, acting through the Agency for International Development, to provide commodities to least developed countries on a grant basis. Directs the President to establish a Food Aid Advisory Group. Establishes a Food for Freedom Program. Authorizes the President to enter into agreements to provide agricultural commodities to eligible countries to support democratization, the granting of individual liberties, and the promotion of economic freedom. Directs the Comptroller General of the United States to evaluate assistance provided under the Act once every three years. Repeals the Food for Progress Act of 1985. Title II: Export Promotion - Amends the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to develop, for each three-fiscal year period, a long-term agricultural trade strategy designed to promote the export of U.S. agricultural commodities. Authorizes the Secretary to make commercial export promotion programs of the Department of Agriculture and the Commodity Credit Corporation available to an affected industry to help mitigate unfair trade practice of a foreign country. Directs the Secretary to establish the Market Development Task Force to develop each three-fiscal year long-term agricultural strategy and to provide information with regard to agricultural export markets and domestic trade programs. Directs the Commodity Credit Corporation to carry out a program to discourage unfair trade practices by making U.S. agricultural commodities competitive, especially high-value and value-added agricultural commodities. Requires the Corporation to establish a program to encourage the development and expansion of commercial export markets for agricultural commodities through cost-share assistance to eligible trade organizations that implement a foreign market development program. Requires U.S. exporters of wheat and wheat flour, feed grains, oilseeds, and cotton to report, on a weekly basis, to the Secretary specified information regarding export sales contracts. Sets forth penalties for failure to make such reports. Requires the Secretary to report to certain congressional committees about nongovernmental subsidies and long-term agricultural trade strategy. Amends the Food for Peace Act of 1966 to require that no export sale of agricultural products may be financed, and no loan may be guaranteed, by the Commodity Credit Corporation unless the Secretary determines that the sale will, among other things, directly benefit U.S. agricultural producers. Extends the authorization of export credit program levels through FY 1995. Prohibits the Corporation from making such guarantees to countries that cannot service the associated debt. Sets forth penalties for fraud committed with respect to such guarantees. Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to extend through FY 1995 the Corporation's short-term export credit program to finance the export sales of U.S. agricultural commodities, including wood and processed wood products. Requires the Secretary to study and report to specified congressional committees about: (1) the effects of the creation of a North American common market on the U.S. agricultural economy; (2) the red tart cherry industry; (3) the impact of consignment sales of foreign roses and fresh cut flowers on the domestic rose and fresh cut flower industry; (4) the promotion of wood and processed wood products; and (5) agricultural commodity transportation. Urges the President to use every means to maintain U.S. access to the European Community market for agricultural commodities. Requires the Foreign Agricultural Service to revise its evaluation reports for its Foreign Service officers with respect to such employees' proficiency in foreign languages. Title III: Agricultural Trade with and Fellowships for Emerging Democracies and Middle-Income Countries - Requires the Commodity Credit Corporation to make available for FY 1991 through 1995 credit guarantees for the export of agricultural products to emerging democracies. Requires the Secretary, in order to develop and expand markets for U.S. agricultural exports, to make U.S. expertise available to such countries. Requires the Secretary to establish an advisory committee to provide information about such exports. Requires the Secretary to establish a program for middle-income countries and emerging democracies to provide fellowships to persons who specialize in agriculture for study in the United States. Authorizes appropriations. Title IV: Effective Dates and Conforming Changes - Sets forth effective dates.

To amend the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to provide that the Secretary of Agriculture may not consider, in allocating amounts to a State agency under the special supplemental food program for women, infants, and children for the fiscal year 1991, any amounts returned by such agency for reallocation during the fiscal year 1990 and to allow amounts allocated to a State for such program for the fiscal year 1991 to be expended for expenses incurred in the fiscal year 1990.

United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1990

Amends provisions of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 relating to the special supplemental food program for women, infants, and young children (WIC Program) to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture, in FY 1991, from adjusting the allocation to any State agency solely on the basis of the return by that agency during FY 1990 of any amounts allocated under specified provisions. Allows a State agency to expend FY 1991 funds in the amount necessary to cover expenses incurred in FY 1990 in order to continue services at the level the services were being provided on March 1, 1990.

Emergency Crop Loss Assistance Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1990

Emergency Crop Loss Assistance Act of 1990 - Provides disaster payments on a crop-by-crop basis to producers of 1990 nonprogram crops who suffered weather-caused crop losses of more than 50 percent. Authorizes additional disaster payments based upon crop quality reductions. Reduces disaster payments under this Act based upon Federal crop insurance payments. Sets forth payment limitation provisions. Prohibits double payments based upon: (1) replanted acreage; and (2) livestock emergency assistance.

To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to convey certain lands to the town of Taos, New Mexico.

United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1990

Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to convey the Old Taos Ranger District Office and Warehouse to the town of Taos, New Mexico.

Good Samaritan Food Donation Act

United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1990

Expresses the sense of the Congress that the States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the territories and possessions of the United States should: (1) encourage the donation of food and grocery products to nonprofit organizations for distribution to the needy; and (2) consider the model Good Samaritan Food Donation Act as a means of encouraging such donations. Good Samaritan Food Donation Act - Defines specified terms relative to food donation activities. Exempts gleaners and owners of property used for gleaning from liability for damages resulting from such activities except for situations of gross negligence or intentional misconduct.

Designating October 1990 as "Ending Hunger Month".

United States · United States Congress · 20 June 1990

Designates October 1990 as Ending Hunger Month.

To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act to prohibit the importation of pistachios that do not comply with any grade, size, quality, and maturity provisions of a marketing order applicable under such Act to pistachios produced in the United States or with comparable restrictions promulgated under such Act.

United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1990

Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as reenacted by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, to prohibit the importation of pistachios that do not comply with domestic marketing order grade, size, quality, and maturity requirements.

Organic Foods National Standards Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1990

Organic Foods National Standards Act of 1990 - Title I: National Standards Governing the Organic Production of Agricultural Products - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish: (1) a national organic production certification program; (2) a label for organically produced and handled agricultural products; (3) a national list of approved and prohibited substances to be included in the organic production standards; and (4) a certifying agent accreditation program. Authorizes State organic certification programs. Sets forth: (1) prohibited crop production practices and materials; (2) animal production practices and materials; (3) processing and marketing requirements; and (4) violations of this Act and related penalties. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: National Board - Directs the Secretary to establish an Organic Standards Board to establish the proposed national list or amendments to such list. Title III: National Laboratory Accreditation - Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish a National Laboratory Accreditation Program for laboratories that test for residues in agricultural products; and (2) establish minimum standards with regard to quality assurance, equipment, methodologies, and personnel. Authorizes appropriations.

Fair and Reasonable Payment Limitations Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1990

Fair and Reasonable Payment Limitations Act of 1990 - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 with regard to assistance limitations and the Agricultural Act of 1949 with regard to emergency livestock assistance limitations to attribute payments to natural persons in proportion to their ownership interest in a corporation, partnership, or other specified entity. Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to set forth specified payment limitations for the 1991 through 1995 crops.

To amend the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to increase the per diem rate of pay for members of the board of directors of the Rural Telephone Bank.

United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1990

Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to increase the per diem rate of pay for members of the board of directors of the Rural Telephone Bank.

Tobacco Deregulation Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1990

Tobacco Deregulation Act of 1990 - Repeals tobacco provisions of the Agricultural Act of 1949, the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, and other specified Federal law with regard to: (1) price supports; (2) marketing orders and quotas; (3) acreage allotments; (4) export sales assistance; (5) Commodity Credit Corporation assistance; and (6) State commerce and production compacts.

Conservation Reserve Program Improvement Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1990

Conservation Reserve Program Improvement Act of 1990 - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to: (1) extend the conservation reserve program (CRP); and (2) authorize a bid-back program to remove the least highly erodible CRP land under specified circumstances.

Disaster Assistance Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1990

Disaster Assistance Act of 1990 - Title I: Emergency Crop Loss Assistance - Subtitle A: Annual Crops - Extends disaster crop loss assistance through the 1990 crop year for wheat, feed grains, cotton, rice, peanuts, sugar, tobacco, soybeans, and other nonprogram crops. Extends crop quality reduction disaster assistance through the 1990 crop year. Reduces disaster assistance payments in relation to Federal crop insurance payments. Requires producers to obtain Federal crop insurance for 1991 in order to be eligible for disaster payments and other specified assistance for 1990 crop losses. Sets forth exempted circumstances. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to announce within a specified time the conditions for establishing a 1990 farm yield for forage-use-crops. Limits assistance under this Act to $100,000. Authorizes the substitution of crop insurance program yields for 1990 disaster assistance eligibility purposes. Subtitle B: Orchards - Provides disaster assistance (up to $25,000 or an equivalent value in seedlings) to orchardists who suffered qualifying tree losses as a result of 1990 freeze, earthquake, or related condition. Expresses the sense of the Congress that Federal crop insurance should be made available to all orchard crops. Subtitle C: Forest Crops - Provides disaster assistance (up to $25,000 or an equivalent in seedlings) to commercial tree farmers who suffered qualifying tree seedling losses as a result of 1990 drought, earthquake, or related condition. Subtitle D: Additional Assistance - Prohibits the Secretary from reducing rental payments to an owner or operator who hays or grazes livestock during the 1990 crop year on land subject to a conservation reserve program contract to the extent that such owner or operator carries out and pays for specified additional conservation practices. Directs the Secretary to establish the emergency agricultural restoration program to restore the productivity of cropland degraded by floods or other natural disasters. Authorizes appropriations beginning with FY 1991. Subtitle E: Administrative Provisions - Makes a person with qualifying annual gross income (as defined by this Act) in excess of $2,500,000 ineligible for assistance under this Act. Title II: Disaster Credit and Forbearance - Makes producers who suffered 1990 crop losses eligible for emergency loans even if they had crop insurance. Directs the Secretary to make 1991 direct and guaranteed farm operating loans (including funds from the Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund) available to producers who suffered 1990 crop losses due to moisture, freeze, or related condition, and 1989 or 1990 crop losses due to drought or related condition. Title III: Rural Businesses - Directs the Secretary to provide loan guarantees through the Rural Development Insurance Fund to rural business enterprises (including Indian tribes) which have suffered disaster damage in 1989 or 1990. Limits: (1) individual guarantees to the lesser of 90 percent of principal and interest or $2,500,000; and (2) aggregate guarantees to $200,000,000. Title IV: General Provisions - Amends the Disaster Assistance Act of 1989 to base the determination of the 1989 harvestable amount of sugarcane on the quantity of recoverable sugar. Directs the Secretary to compensate livestock producers for certain flood-caused losses in 1990 if such losses exceed specified fair market values. Title V: Southwest Region Flood Response Commission - Establishes the Southwest Region Flood Response Evaluation Commission to evaluate: (1) existing flood control measures in the Arkansas, Red, and Ouachita River basins; and (2) Federal emergency response capabilities and disaster assistance programs. Terminates the Commission 90 days after submission of such evaluation to the Congress and the President. Title VI: Interim Disaster Assistance - Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster and Emergency Assistance Act to permit a State to meet Department of Defense disaster relief matching requirements by requesting the President to decrease other Federal assistance under such Act for the same incident. Title VII: Flood Control - Directs the Secretary of the Army to rehabilitate certain Federal flood control levees in Arkansas and Oklahoma.

Production Cost Insurance Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1990

Production Cost Insurance Act of 1990 - Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to expand the oversight and data collection powers of the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation. Authorizes the Corporation to provide insurance for the recovery of production costs. Prohibits plan changes for three years from the date of the initial change. Directs the Corporation to make crop insurance available for dry edible beans. Repeals a specified crop insurance yield coverage provision. Prohibits the inclusion of specified catastrophic losses in establishing premium rates. Directs the Corporation to establish regional advisory committees to assist in actuarial and underwriting activities.

Disaster Assistance Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1990

Disaster Assistance Act of 1990 - Title I: Emergency Crop Loss Assistance - Subtitle A: Annual Crops - Extends disaster crop loss assistance through the 1990 crop year for wheat, feed grains, cotton, rice, peanuts, sugar, tobacco, soybeans, and other nonprogram crops. Extends crop quality reduction disaster assistance through the 1990 crop year. Reduces disaster assistance payments in relation to Federal crop insurance payments. Requires producers to obtain Federal crop insurance for 1991 in order to be eligible for disaster payments and other specified assistance for 1990 crop losses. Sets forth exempted circumstances. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to announce within a specified time the conditions for establishing a 1990 farm yield for forage-use-crops. Limits assistance under this Act to $100,000. Authorizes the substitution of crop insurance program yields for 1990 disaster assistance eligibility purposes. Subtitle B: Orchards - Provides disaster assistance (up to $25,000 or an equivalent value in seedlings) to orchardists who suffered qualifying tree losses as a result of 1990 freeze, earthquake, or related condition. Expresses the sense of the Congress that Federal crop insurance should be made available to all orchard crops. Subtitle C: Forest Crops - Provides disaster assistance (up to $25,000 or an equivalent in seedlings) to commercial tree farmers who suffered qualifying tree seedling losses as a result of 1990 drought, earthquake or related condition. Subtitle D: Additional Assistance - Prohibits the Secretary from reducing rental payments to an owner or operator who hays or grazes livestock during the 1990 crop year on land subject to a conservation reserve program contract to the extent that such owner or operator carries out and pays for specified additional conservation practices. Directs the Secretary to establish the emergency agricultural restoration program to restore the productivity of cropland degraded by floods or other natural disasters. Authorizes appropriations beginning with FY 1991. Subtitle E: Administrative Provisions - Makes a person with qualifying annual gross income (as defined by this Act) in excess of $2,000,000 ineligible for assistance under this Act. Title II: Disaster Credit and Forbearance - Makes producers who suffered 1990 crop losses eligible for emergency loans even if they had crop insurance. Directs the Secretary to make 1991 direct and guaranteed farm operating loans (including funds from the Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund) available to producers who suffered 1990 crop losses due to moisture, freeze, or related condition, and 1988 or 1990 crop losses due to drought or related condition. Title III: Rural Businesses - Directs the Secretary to provide loan guarantees through the Rural Development Insurance Fund to rural business enterprises (including Indian tribes) which have suffered disaster damage in 1989 or 1990. Limits: (1) individual guarantees to the lesser of 90 percent of principal and interest or $2,500,000; and (2) aggregate guarantees to $200,000,000. Title IV: General Provisions - Amends the Disaster Assistance Act of 1989 to base the determination of the 1989 harvestable amount of sugarcane on the quantity of recoverable sugar. Directs the Secretary to compensate livestock producers for certain flood-caused losses in 1990 if such losses exceed specified fair market values.

Swampbuster Improvement Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1990

Swampbuster Improvement Act of 1990 - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 with regard to wetland conservation to: (1) base agricultural assistance ineligibility upon unrestored converted wetlands; (2) include other conservation assistance among such categories of agricultural assistance; (3) provide for restoration agreements; and (4) provide an administrative appeal procedure for determinations of ineligibility.

To amend the Act of August 30, 1890 (commonly known as the Second Morrill Act), to remove language purporting to permit racial segregation in land-grant colleges that receive funds under that Act.

United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1990

Amends Federal Law (popularly known as the Agricultural College Act of 1890 and also as the Second Morrill Act) to require that, if any State or Territory has more than one college which is entitled to receive an annual payment under land grant college provisions, the payments must be equitably divided among the colleges, as proposed by the State or Territorial legislature and approved by the Secretary of Agriculture. (Current law replaced by this provision prohibits payments to colleges where admission distinctions are made on the basis of race or color, but allows payments to separate colleges or educational institutions for white and colored students so long as the payments are equitably divided.)

Wetlands Preservation and Restoration Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1990

Wetlands Preservation and Restoration Act of 1990 - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a wetland restoration program through permanent easement contracts and cost sharing with the owners of eligible land. Authorizes appropriations.

Disaster Assistance Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1990

Disaster Assistance Act of 1990 - Title I: Emergency Crop Loss Assistance - Subtitle A: Annual Crops - Extends disaster crop loss assistance through the 1990 crop year for wheat, feed grains, cotton, rice, peanuts, sugar, tobacco, soybeans, and other nonprogram crops. Extends crop quality reduction disaster assistance through the 1990 crop year. Reduces disaster assistance payments in relation to Federal crop insurance payments. Requires producers to obtain Federal crop insurance for 1991 in order to be eligible for disaster payments and other specified assistance for 1990 crop losses. Sets forth exempted circumstances. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to announce within a specified time the conditions for establishing a 1990 farm yield for forage-use-crops. Limits assistance under this Act to $100,000. Authorizes the substitution of crop insurance program yields for 1990 disaster assistance eligibility purposes. Subtitle B: Orchards - Provides disaster assistance (up to $25,000 or an equivalent value in seedlings) to orchardists who suffered qualifying tree losses as a result of 1990 freeze, earthquake, or related condition. Expresses the sense of the Congress that Federal crop insurance should be made available to all orchard crops. Subtitle C: Forest Crops - Provides disaster assistance (up to $25,000 or an equivalent in seedlings) to commercial tree farmers who suffered qualifying tree seedling losses as a result of 1990 drought, earthquake, or related condition. Subtitle D: Additional Assistance - Prohibits the Secretary from reducing rental payments to an owner or operator who hays or grazes livestock during the 1990 crop year on land subject to a conservation reserve program contract to the extent that such owner or operator carries out and pays for specified additional conservation practices. Subtitle E: Administrative Provisions - Makes a person with qualifying annual gross income (as defined by this Act) in excess of $2,000,000 ineligible for assistance under this Act. Title II: Disaster Credit and Forbearance - Makes producers who suffered 1990 crop losses eligible for emergency loans even if they had crop insurance. Directs the Secretary to make 1991 direct and guaranteed farm operating loans (including funds from the Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund) available to producers who suffered 1990 crop losses due to moisture, freeze, or related condition, and 1989 or 1990 crop losses due to drought or related condition. Title III: Rural Businesses - Directs the Secretary to provide loan guarantees through the Rural Development Insurance Fund to rural business enterprises (including Indian tribes) which have suffered disaster damage in 1989 or 1990. Limits: (1) individual guarantees to the lesser of 90 percent of principal and interest or $2,500,000; and (2) aggregate guarantees to $200,000,000. Title IV: General Provisions - Amends the Disaster Assistance Act of 1989 to base the determination of the 1989 harvestable amount of sugarcane on the quantity of recoverable sugar.

To provide disaster assistance for agricultural producers, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1990

Title I: Emergency Crop Loss Assistance - Subtitle A: Annual Crops - Extends disaster crop loss assistance through the 1990 crop year for wheat, feed grains, cotton, rice, peanuts, sugar, tobacco, soybeans, and other nonprogram crops. Extends crop quality reduction disaster assistance through the 1990 crop year. Reduces disaster assistance payments in relation to Federal crop insurance payments. Requires producers to obtain Federal crop insurance for 1991 in order to be eligible for disaster payments and other specified assistance for 1990 crop losses. Sets forth exempted circumstances. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to announce within a specified time the conditions for establishing a 1990 farm yield for forage-use-crops. Limits assistance under this Act to $100,000. Authorizes the substitution of crop insurance program yields for 1990 disaster assistance eligibility purposes. Subtitle B: Orchards - Provides disaster assistance (up to $25,000 or an equivalent value in seedlings) to orchardists who suffered qualifying tree losses as a result of 1990 freeze, earthquake, or related condition. Expresses the sense of the Congress that Federal crop insurance should be made available to all orchard crops. Subtitle C: Forest Crops - Provides disaster assistance (up to $25,000 or an equivalent in seedlings) to commercial tree farmers who suffered qualifying tree seedling losses as a result of 1990 drought, earthquake, or related condition. Subtitle D: Additional Assistance - Prohibits the Secretary from reducing rental payments to an owner or operator who hays or grazes livestock during the 1990 crop year on land subject to a conservation reserve program contract to the extent that such owner or operator carries out and pays for specified additional conservation practices. Subtitle E: Administrative Provisions - Makes a person with qualifying annual gross income (as defined by this Act) in excess of $2,000,000 ineligible for assistance under this Act. Title II: Disaster Credit and Forbearance - Makes producers who suffered 1990 crop losses eligible for emergency loans even if they had crop insurance. Directs the Secretary to make 1991 direct and guaranteed farm operating loans (including funds from the Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund) available to producers who suffered 1990 crop losses due to moisture, freeze, or related condition, and 1988 or 1990 crop losses due to drought or related condition. Title III: Rural Businesses - Directs the Secretary to provide loan guarantees through the Rural Development Insurance Fund to rural business enterprises (including Indian tribes) which have suffered disaster damage in 1989 or 1990. Limits: (1) individual guarantees to the lesser of 90 percent of principal and interest or $2,500,000; and (2) aggregate guarantees to $200,000,000. Title IV: General Provisions - Amends the Disaster Assistance Act of 1989 to base the determination of the 1989 harvestable amount of sugarcane on the quantity of recoverable sugar.

To designate the period commencing on June 16, 1990 and ending on June 27, 1990 as "Food Science and Technology Week".

United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1990

Designates June 16 through June 23, 1990, as Food Science and Technology Week.

Disaster Assistance Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1990

Disaster Assistance Act of 1990 - Title I: Emergency Crop Loss Assistance - Subtitle A: Annual Crops - Extends disaster crop loss assistance through the 1990 crop year for wheat, feed grains, cotton, rice, peanuts, sugar, tobacco, soybeans, and other nonprogram crops. Extends crop quality reduction disaster assistance through the 1990 crop year. Reduces disaster assistance payments in relation to Federal crop insurance payments. Requires producers to obtain Federal crop insurance for 1991 in order to be eligible for disaster payments and other specified assistance for 1990 crop losses. Sets forth exempted circumstances. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to announce within a specified time the conditions for establishing a 1990 farm yield for forage-use-crops. Limits assistance under this Act to $100,000. Authorizes the substitution of crop insurance program yields for 1990 disaster assistance eligibility purposes. Subtitle B: Orchards - Provides disaster assistance (up to $25,000 or an equivalent value in seedlings) to orchardists who suffered qualifying tree losses as a result of a 1990 freeze, earthquake, or related condition. Expresses the sense of the Congress that Federal crop insurance should be made available to all orchard crops. Subtitle C: Forest Crops - Provides disaster assistance (up to $25,000 or an equivalent in seedlings) to commercial tree farmers who suffered qualifying tree seedling losses as a result of a 1990 drought, earthquake, or related condition. Subtitle D: Additional Assistance - Prohibits the Secretary from reducing rental payments to an owner or operator who hays or grazes livestock during the 1990 crop year on land subject to a conservation reserve program contract to the extent that such owner or operator carries out and pays for specified additional conservation practices. Subtitle E: Administrative Provisions - Makes a person with qualifying annual gross income (as defined by this Act) in excess of $2,000,000 ineligible for assistance under this Act. Title II: Disaster Credit and Forbearance - Makes producers who suffered 1990 crop losses eligible for emergency loans even if they had crop insurance. Directs the Secretary to make 1991 direct and guaranteed farm operating loans (including funds from the Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund) available to producers who suffered 1990 crop losses due to moisture, freeze, or related conditions, and 1989 or 1990 crop losses due to drought or related conditions. Title III: Rural Businesses - Directs the Secretary to provide loan guarantees through the Rural Development Insurance Fund to rural business enterprises (including Indian tribes) which have suffered disaster damage in 1989 or 1990. Limits: (1) individual guarantees to the lesser of 90 percent of principal and interest or $2,500,000; and (2) aggregate guarantees to $200,000,000. Title IV: General Provisions - Amends the Disaster Assistance Act of 1989 to base the determination of the 1989 harvestable amount of sugarcane on the quantity of recoverable sugar.

A joint resolution to designate the week of August 19 through 25, 1990, as "National Agricultural Research Week".

United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1990

Designates the week of August 19 through August 25, 1990, as National Agricultural Research Week.

Beginning Farmer and Rancher Credit Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1990

Beginning Farmer and Rancher Credit Act of 1990 - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish for qualified beginning farmers and ranchers: (1) a loan interest rate reduction program; and (2) a down payment loan program. Defines "qualified beginning farmer or rancher" for purposes of this Act. Obligates specified amounts for loans and guarantees to qualified beginning farmers and ranchers.

Peanut Program Modernization Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1990

Peanut Program Modernization Act of 1990 - Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to repeal peanut marketing quota provisions. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to replace existing peanut price support provisions with price supports as determined by the Secretary of Agriculture based upon specified factors, including production costs and domestic and foreign demand.

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Peace Corps should develop a business persons volunteer program for Eastern Europe to assist emerging democracies there in business and agriculture.

United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1990

Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Director of the Peace Corps should: (1) develop a volunteer service through which business people and farmers could share their entrepreneurial experience with their counterparts in Eastern Europe; and (2) invite business people with a record of volunteer service to form a task force to recommend the elements of the service.

A bill to amend the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to make clarifications in provisions relating to general assistance vendor payments, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1990

Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to exclude certain general assistance vendor payments from income for purposes of food stamp eligibility.

Grown in the United States Food Labeling Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1990

Grown in the United States Food Labeling Act of 1990 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture and the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration to issue regulations which will establish the Grown in the United States Food Labeling Program. Prohibits any food product which contains a significant amount of imported ingredients from participating in the Program. Directs the Secretary and the Commissioner to issue a report regarding the adequacy of Federal country of origin food labeling requirements and recommending improvements to the Congress.

Agricultural Credit Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1990

Agricultural Credit Act of 1990 - Title I: FmHA Loans - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to require applicants for farm ownership and operating loans to have had at least three years of farm or ranch training or experience during the five-year period immediately preceding their loan application. Allows the Secretary of Agriculture to set the interest rates on farm ownership and operating loans made to limited resource borrowers at a specified level. Includes the leasing of farm equipment among the acceptable uses of operating loans. Repeals the prohibition against collection by the Secretary of interest accrued on interest which is not more than 90 days overdue on Farmers Home Administration (FmHA) loans. Requires the Secretary to: (1) document his or her consent to the transfer of the property of a borrower in the borrower's file; (2) provide a summary of debt settlement programs to borrowers who are at least 180 days delinquent in the payment of principal or interest on an FmHA loan; and (3) use underwriting forms, standards, practices, and terminology in administering FmHA loans similar to those used by private lenders. Provides that the Secretary's appointment of a farmer who is eligible for an FmHA loan to the County Committee shall not preclude such farmer's election to the committee. Requires the Secretary to mail ballots to persons eligible to vote for committee members and provide training and a training manual to committee members. Makes a County Committee's certification of a farmer's eligibility for an FmHA loan effective for two years or such other period as the committee determines to be appropriate. Requires that each application for an FmHA community and business program loan or loan guarantee which would be disapproved due to the Secretary's lack of funds be placed in a pending status until such funds become available. Directs the Secretary to look for ways to streamline and improve the FmHA loan application process. Prohibits the Secretary from denying an application for a direct or guaranteed FmHA loan solely on the basis that the applicant's Farm and Home Plan is based on an agricultural production system that is part of research under the Food Security Act of 1985. Allows an applicant or recipient of an FmHA loan or loan guarantee who is adversely affected by a decision of the Secretary to appeal such decision without the lender joining in the appeal. Requires a County Committee or FmHA employee to implement a case decision returned after appeal within a reasonable period. Permits a County Committee to select between qualified applicants for FmHA administered farmland on a random basis if such applicants have an equal need for farm income and meet loan eligibility criteria. Limits the borrower purchase or lease option to real farm or ranch property which the Secretary acquires from the borrower as security on a loan. Puts beginning farmers or ranchers on the list of preferred purchasers or lessees of property acquired by the Secretary. Gives Indians 180 days after this Act's enactment to purchase or lease lands which are in the land inventory, were owned by an Indian borrower-owner before enactment and are situated on an Indian reservation, regardless of the date of foreclosure or Federal acquisition. Requires transfer of such lands to the Secretary of the Interior who shall administer the land for the Indians' benefit if there is no intent expressed to exercise such right within the deadline. Allows the FmHA to sell inventory property at its fair market value, rather than on the basis of its anticipated farming revenue. Directs the Secretary to report annually to the Congress on the demand for direct and guaranteed FmHA loans and the number of applications denied due to lack of funding. Increases the amount of payments the Secretary may make to, and the term of the contract the Secretary may have with, lenders to reduce the amount of interest charged on FmHA guaranteed loans. Extends, through FY 1995, a demonstration program reducing interest rates paid by borrowers for loans to buy Farm Credit System properties. Amends the farm debt restructuring and loan servicing program to: (1) include a delinquent borrower's unsecured assets in the calculation as to whether the delinquency is beyond the borrower's control; and (2) allow a borrower to sell security for essential living and operating expenses without being determined to have acted in bad faith if the FmHA has denied the borrower adequate living and operating expenses. Adjusts calculations under the program to protect a farmer's ability to meet obligations and continue farming operations. Prohibits a borrower from receiving a second write-down of interest. Limits the amount of write-down or buy-out of principal indebtedness which may be provided to any one borrower. Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish annual target participation rates that ensure that members of socially disadvantaged groups receive farm ownership and operation loans made or insured by the FmHA; and (2) maintain statistics on the participation of such groups in the FmHA loan and farmland sale or lease programs. Treats an Indian tribe that is a socially and economically disadvantaged small business concern as a socially disadvantaged group. Makes Indian tribes eligible for FmHA real estate loans. Allows a tribe to use such a loan to purchase and consolidate a parcel of trust land whose ownership is highly fractionated as a result of multiple undivided heirship interests. Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish a plan encouraging FmHA borrowers to graduate to private commercial credit; (2) provide training to borrowers in financial and farm management concepts associated with commercial farming; and (3) conduct loan assessments of FmHA direct and guaranteed loan applicants, as well as annual reviews of direct loans and periodic reviews of loan guarantees to assess a recipient's progress toward farm goals and private commercial credit. Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish a market placement program for borrowers who have a reasonable chance of qualifying for commercial credit with a FmHA guarantee; (2) provide adequate training to FmHA employees on credit analysis and financial and farm management; and (3) ensure that FmHA credit supervision includes an annual visit to each borrower's farm and biannual consultations between the borrower and loan officer. Directs the Secretary to establish innovative land transfer finance and assistance programs for beginning farmers or ranchers. Directs the Secretary, if a borrower defaults on a FmHA guaranteed loan, to: (1) meet with the borrower and lender to discuss loan servicing options; (2) review any decision of a lender not to provide loan servicing before submitting a liquidation plan; and (3) notify the lender of FmHA loan servicing programs and provide it with a written explanation of any denial of its liquidation plan. Requires a lender to disclose its foreclosure plan before the Secretary approves a guaranteed loan application. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Secretary should quickly act to correct specified problems with the system of FmHA loan application review and loan servicing monitoring of guaranteed loans. Title II: Miscellaneous - Repeals the Emergency Agricultural Credit Adjustment Act of 1978. Extends authorized appropriations for State agricultural loan mediation programs. Title III: Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations.

Milk Producers' Financial Protection Amendments of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1990

Milk Producers' Financial Protection Amendments of 1990 - Amends the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921 to provide that all milk purchased from a producer by a handler in a cash sale and all inventories and proceeds and related products shall be held by the handler in trust for the producer until the producer receives full payment. States that the producer shall lose the benefit of such trust if: (1) payment is not received within 30 days of the payment date; or (2) within 15 business days after the handler receives notice that the payment instrument has been dishonored.

To amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to allow land in the water bank to be eligible for the conservation reserve if it is otherwise eligible, but does not qualify as having been planted or considered planted in 2 of the 5 crop years 1981 through 1985.

United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1990

Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to permit certain land in the water bank program to be enrolled in the conservation reserve program.

Agriculture Environmental Restoration Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1990

Agriculture Environmental Restoration Act of 1990 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary) to carry out an agriculture environmental restoration program which shall: (1) identify and clean up hazardous substances released from facilities owned or formerly owned by the Department of Agriculture (Department); and (2) determine whether groundwater contamination has occurred at such sites, including well water testing and warnings to persons in the affected vicinity. Directs the Secretary to carry out: (1) hazardous waste research, development, and demonstration programs; and (2) related information collection and dissemination. Establishes in the Department the Agriculture Environmental Restoration Fund. Directs: (1) the Secretary to notify the Secretary of Health and Human Services of the most commonly found unregulated hazardous substances at Department facilities; (2) the Secretary of Health and Human Services to ensure the timely preparation of toxicological profiles of such substances; (3) the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to prepare hazardous substance health advisories; and (4) the Secretary to notify the appropriate EPA offices and State and local authorities with regard to environmental restoration activities. Requires the Secretary, whenever possible, to establish a technical review committee to comment on releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances at Department of Agriculture facilities. Authorizes appropriations.

Agricultural Development and Trade Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1990

Agricultural Development and Trade Act of 1990 - Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to revise policy provisions. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should: (1) increase the U.S. contribution of food aid and encourage other donor countries to increase contributions toward meeting new food aid requirements; and (2) encourage other advanced nations to make increased food aid contributions to combat world hunger and malnutrition through the expansion of international food and agricultural assistance programs. Directs the President to: (1) carry out through the Agency for International Development (AID) a program under which agricultural commodities are donated to least developed countries and the revenue from the sale of such commodities may be used for economic development activities; and (2) implement, through the Secretary of Agriculture, a program to offer agricultural commodities for sale on credit to developing countries and to carry out domestic agricultural trade development activities with the local currency proceeds associated with the repayment of loans. Considers a country to be a: (1) least developed country if the country meets poverty criteria established by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank) Civil Works Preference or such country is a food deficit country and is characterized by high levels of malnutrition among significant numbers of its population; and (2) a developing country if such country has a shortage of foreign exchange earnings and has difficulty meeting its food needs through commercial channels. Sets forth indicators of national food deficit and malnutrition. Prohibits such assistance to any government engaging in a consistent pattern of human rights violations. Waives such prohibition if the food assistance is targeted to the most needy people and made available through channels other than the government. Authorizes the Administrator to execute agreements with least developed countries to provide commodities on a grant basis. Requires the Administrator, in allocating such commodities, to give priority to least developed countries that: (1) demonstrate the greatest need for food; (2) demonstrate the capacity to use food assistance effectively; and (3) are willing to promote food security. Directs the Administrator to arrange for the transportation of such commodities. Requires agreements to be entered into by November 30 of the fiscal year in which the commodities are to be shipped. Authorizes agricultural commodities provided to a least developed country to be: (1) used in the recipient country for direct feeding programs or the development of emergency food reserves or distributed through commercial channels; or (2) sold in such country, with the proceeds of the sale distributed in accordance with this Act. Requires revenues generated from the sale of agricultural commodities to be disbursed in the recipient country in accordance with a local currency agreement between the recipient country and the Administrator. Requires amounts in local currency accounts to be used for specific economic development purposes in the recipient country. Provides that at least ten percent of such amounts shall be used by the country to support indigenous nongovernmental organizations, nonprofit agricultural organizations, and cooperatives that are active in rural development, sustainable agricultural production, and environmental protection projects in the country. Authorizes the Secretary to execute agreements with developing countries to provide for the sale of agricultural commodities on a deferred payment basis. Requires the Secretary, in allocating such commodities, to give priority to developing countries that: (1) demonstrate the greatest need for food; (2) are listed on the priority list under title I of the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978; and (3) have the potential to become commercial markets for competitively priced U.S. agricultural commodities. Permits only the Secretary or the Commodity Credit Corporation to serve as purchasing or shipping agents, or both, with respect to such commodities. Authorizes the Secretary or the Corporation to establish fees for such services. Sets forth terms and conditions of sales of such commodities. Authorizes the Secretary to defer payments for up to seven years after the last delivery of commodities to a developing country. Requires proceeds from payments made in foreign currencies by developing countries to be used to: (1) develop markets for U.S. agricultural commodities on a mutually beneficial basis; (2) make agricultural business development loans to U.S. businesses; (3) make agricultural facility loans to domestic or foreign entities; (4) promote agricultural trade development; (5) conduct agricultural trade development activities in recipient countries; (6) conduct agriculture and forestry research; and (7) make payments to the United States for previous obligations of recipient countries. Makes foreign currencies used by the Secretary (other than for research or U.S. obligations) exempt from a prohibition on the use of foreign credits by Federal agencies under the Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1953. Prohibits purchases of agricultural commodities from private stock or purchase of ocean transportation under this Act unless such purchases are made on an invitation for bid that is publicly advertised in the United States. Prohibits commissions or other payments to selling or purchasing agents in the purchase of such commodities and transportation, unless determined appropriate by the Secretary. Sets forth reporting requirements with respect to commissions or payments made to agents of the importing country. Makes suppliers of commodities or ocean transportation who fail to file reports, or who file false reports, ineligible to furnish commodities or transportation financed under this Act for five years. Prohibits freight agents employed by the Secretary, the Corporation, or AID from representing any supplier of commodities, freight or ancillary services, or any foreign government during the period of their contracts with the United States. Authorizes the Secretary, in entering into agreements for the sale of high protein, blended, or fortified foods to developing countries, to waive payments (equal to the costs of processing, enrichment, or fortification) if specified conditions are met. Requires the Corporation to make available to the Administrator agricultural commodities for least developed countries. Authorizes the Corporation to finance the sale and export of commodities for developing countries. Permits the Corporation to make commodities available on a cost and freight basis. Limits the total value of agreements entered into with respect to such commodities. Revises famine relief provisions to authorize the President, through the Administrator, to provide agricultural commodities to foreign countries to: (1) alleviate hunger, mortality, and morbidity; and (2) promote sound environmental practices. Makes eligible to receive such assistance: (1) private voluntary organizations or cooperatives that are registered with the Administrator; or (2) intergovernmental organizations. Earmarks a specified amount of funds for expanding such programs and for meeting administrative costs of such organizations. Sets forth specified requirements for organizations to ensure that commodities are used effectively and in the areas of greatest need. Directs the Administrator to give priority to U.S. organizations or cooperatives. Permits agreements between the Administrator and such organizations to provide for the sale or barter of commodities in the recipient country. Requires the Administrator to ensure that such organizations can sell at least ten percent of the amount of all commodities distributed under non-emergency programs for each fiscal year in order to generate foreign currency proceeds. Authorizes the Administrator to provide assistance to such organizations in the sale of commodities in such countries. Sets forth minimum levels of commodities available for food distribution. Establishes the Food Aid Consultative Group to review issues concerning the effectiveness of procedures governing food assistance programs and private voluntary organizations, cooperatives, and indigenous nongovernmental organizations. Requires the Corporation to make available commodities to carry out food assistance programs. Revises administrative procedures with respect to agricultural commodity proposals. Revises the President's authorities with respect to the farmer-to-farmer program and extends such program to least developed and middle-income countries and newly-emerging democracies. Sets forth minimum amounts of funding for such program. Establishes a Food for Freedom Program. Authorizes the President to enter into agreements to provide agricultural commodities to eligible countries to support democratization, the granting of individual liberties, and the promotion of economic freedom. Permits commodities to be made available on a grant basis or on credit terms. Requires a country, in order to be eligible, to: (1) have begun a transformation to a representative democracy; (2) have made commitments to expand free enterprise in the agricultural economy; or (3) have begun to implement comprehensive economic reforms that will temporarily increase the likelihood of malnutrition in vulnerable groups. Sets forth the duties of the Corporation with respect to the program. Limits the amount of Corporation funds to be used for the program. Sets forth elements of agreements to carry out the program. Prohibits the transshipment or resale of commodities unless authorized by the President. Prohibits any agreement under the program if such agreement would result in: (1) the inability of the Corporation to provide sufficient commodities to carry out specified food assistance, domestic commodity, or agricultural trade programs; (2) a shortage in the domestic supply of commodities required under the agreement; or (3) the inability of the Corporation to maintain adequate carryover stocks to meet an emergency or meet the requirements of any Act. Authorizes the President to use a certain amount of Corporation funds to provide assistance to strengthen private sector agriculture in recipient countries. Requires the Secretary to determine the agricultural commodities and quantities for disposition. Authorizes the Secretary to suspend the disposition of a commodity if the disposition would reduce the domestic supply of the commodity below that needed to meet domestic requirements, adequate carryover, and anticipated exports. Exempts from such suspension commodities used for urgent humanitarian purposes. Makes alcoholic beverages and tobacco products ineligible for disposition. Prohibits any commodity from being made available unless the Secretary or the Administrator determines that: (1) adequate storage facilities are available in the recipient country to prevent the spoilage or waste of the commodity; and (2) the distribution of the commodity in the country will not result in a disincentive to, or interference with, domestic production or marketing. Directs the Administrator or the Secretary to: (1) ensure that the importation of U.S. commodities and the use of local currencies for development purposes will not have a disruptive impact on the farmers or local economy of the recipient country; (2) ensure that private trade channels are used with respect to specified sales and donations and that small businesses have a fair opportunity to participate in sales; (3) assure that sales or donations will not disrupt world prices or normal trade patterns; (4) obtain commitments from recipient countries that they will publicize the commodities are being provided as food for peace; (5) encourage the U.S. private sector and private importers in developing countries to participate in programs under this Act; and (6) safeguard U.S. marketings and avoid displacing sales that would otherwise be made for cash dollars. Prohibits the handling of commodities by government military forces or an insurgent group, except under certain conditions. Requires the Administrator to encourage all parties to a conflict to permit safe passage of commodities and other relief supplies and to establish safe zones for recovery activities. Authorizes the President to waive payments by eligible developing countries for food aid loan obligations. Makes a country eligible if the country meets least developed country criteria or a specified structural adjustment facility or similar arrangement is in effect with respect to the country. Permits the President to provide debt relief only if a request is made in the annual budget. Prohibits countries receiving debt relief from receiving food aid loans for a period of two years. Prohibits agreements to finance sales or provide assistance under this Act from being entered into after 1995. Requires the President to report annually to the Congress on the progress toward food security and the elimination of malnutrition in countries receiving U.S. food assistance. Authorizes appropriations. Classifies expenditures under this Act as expenditures for international affairs and finance. Sets forth the required value of commodities acquired under the Agricultural Act of 1949. Revises provisions of the Agricultural Act of 1949 to permit the Secretary to provide eligible commodities for food assistance programs and the Food for Freedom Program established by this Act. Authorizes foreign currency proceeds generated in Poland to be used for activities that would: (1) improve the quality of life of the Polish people; and (2) strengthen and support activities of private, nongovernmental institutions in Poland.

Weed Control Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1990

Weed Control Act of 1990 - Title I: Federal Noxious Weed Act of 1974 - Amends the Federal Noxious Weed Act of 1974 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish within the Department of Agriculture a Noxious Weed Technical Advisory Group. Includes among the Group's responsibilities: (1) recommendation of noxious weed control strategies; (2) development of noxious weed classification criteria; and (3) approval of plant species for Federal and noxious weed designation. Establishes a new classification system for noxious weeds. Prohibits interstate movement of noxious weeds by any means unless a special permit has been issued by the Secretary. Subjects imported agricultural and vegetable seeds to the provisions of this Act. Title II: Land Enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to direct the Secretary to develop conservation reserve program (CRP) weed and pest control guides. Subjects new CRP contracts to these guidelines, including fines for guideline violations.

James R. Moseley, of Indiana, to be an Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, vice George S. Dunlop, resigned.

United States · United States Senate · 8 May 1990

A bill to amend the National Agricultural Research Extension and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 to establish a Southeast Food Sciences Nutrition Research Center, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1990

Amends the National Agricultural Research Extension and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 to establish a Southeast Food Sciences Nutrition Research Center based at a specified institution. Authorizes appropriations.

Farm Spouse Fairness and Equity Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1990

Farm Spouse Fairness and Equity Act of 1990 - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to treat a husband and wife who each provide active personal management or labor to their farm or to an after-acquired inherited farm as separate persons for farm program payment purposes (thus qualifying them for two separate payments). Continues a farm's multiyear program payments to a person who receives such farm by way of gift or descent. States that such payments shall: (1) not exceed the previous owner's payments; and (2) continue without regard to other payments received by the new owner from such farm or from other farming operations.

To direct the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to station a traditional procurement center representative at the Department of Agriculture, the Navy Sea Systems Command, and the Environmental Protection Agency.

United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1990

Directs the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to station a traditional procurement center representative at the Department of Agriculture, the Naval Sea Systems Command, and the Environmental Protection Agency. Authorizes appropriations.

To amend the Farm Credit Act of 1971 to allow borrowers to bring actions against institutions of the Farm Credit System in the Federal courts.

United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1990

Amends the Farm Credit Act of 1971 to permit a Farm Credit System borrower to bring an action against a System institution in U.S. district court, without regard to the amount in controversy. Provides for injunctive relief and up to $1,000 in damages.

To exempt from the program ineligibility requirements of section 1221 of the Food Security Act of 1985 persons who produce an agricultural commodity on wetlands of two acres or less.

United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1990

Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to exempt from agricultural benefits ineligibility persons who produce agricultural commodities on certain previously cropped wetland of two acres or less.

Swampbuster Improvement Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1990

Swampbuster Improvement Act of 1990 - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to exempt a producer on converted wetland from program ineligibility if: (1) production has minimal hydrological and biological wetland effect; or (2) such land has been traditionally cropped and the producer provides for mitigation on an acre-for-acre basis. Provides for graduated penalties for first-time violators who have made a good faith effort at compliance.

To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to define light butter.

United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1990

Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to define "light butter" as being a product with the same appearance as butter, made from pasteurized milk or cream, with 35 to 40 percent milk fat, and meeting other requirements.

Farms for the Future Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1990

Farms for the Future Act of 1990 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish the Agricultural Resource Conservation Demonstration Program to provide Federal guarantees and interest rate assistance for loans made by lending institutions to State trust funds. Authorizes the Secretary to establish in the Treasury the Agricultural Resource Conservation Revolving Fund. Terminates the Program on September 30, 1996.

Agricultural Resources Conservation Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1990

Agricultural Resources Conservation Act of 1990 - Establishes in the Department of Agriculture: (1) an Office of Environmental Quality; and (2) the Interagency Committee on Environmental Quality. Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to: (1) revise the conservation easement loan cancellation method; and (2) include all assets in calculating the value of restructured farm loans. Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to revise: (1) the highly erodible land conservation program; and (2) the wetland conservation program, including continued program ineligibility and reinstatement compliance agreements, program exemptions, and the protection of wetlands in Federal assistance programs. Amends the conservation reserve program (CRP) to: (1) extend CRP eligibility to specified non-highly erodible lands; (2) extend program authority; (3) extend highly erodible land reduction authority; (4) permit counties to exceed program acreage limits for conservation purposes; (5) increase eligible farm acreage; (6) set forth enrollment goals for environmentally sensitive lands, trees, and wildlife protection; (7) subject land that was formerly under a CRP contract to certain conservation provisions; and (8) exempt land ownership changes due to bankruptcy or foreclosure from the three-year ownership rule. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949, with regard to the 1991 through 1995 crops of wheat, feed grains, cotton, and rice to provide Federal cost-sharing assistance for wildlife habitat improvements on diverted or set-aside acreage. Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to: (1) extend multiyear set-aside authority; (2) direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish advisory State Technical Committees to assist in implementing conservation provisions under title XII of such Act; and (3) direct the Secretary to establish an Agricultural Resources Conservation Program. Provides, under such Program, for: (1) a comprehensive agricultural resources planning option; (2) a wetlands preservation option; (3) a water quality improvement option; and (4) a wildlife habitat improvement option. Directs the Secretary, during FY 1991 through 2000, to carry out a long-term conservation easement program to: (1) protect wetlands and other environmentally sensitive lands; and (2) ensure that CRP or Water Bank lands continue resource conservation and improvement. Directs the Secretary to establish a national agriculture wetlands reserve. Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to establish: (1) a tree planting initiative, including maintenance and reforestation on forest lands and under the CRP; and (2) a natural resources loan program. Amends the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act to extend the Great Plains Conservation Program.

To direct the Secretary of the Army to transfer the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site remnant lands to the Secretary of Agriculture for the purpose of protecting the paleontological, archeological, and natural resources on those lands.

United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1990

Directs the Secretary of the Army to transfer to the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Chief of the Forest Service, certain Federal lands in Pinon Canyon, Colorado, to be known as the Picket Wire Special Management Area. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to administer the special management area to: (1) preserve and protect the paleontological, archeological, wildlife, vegetative, aquatic, and other natural resources of the area; (2) permit, within specified guidelines, access to those resources for scholarly research, public interpretation, and recreation; and (3) allow livestock grazing in the area only to the extent deemed necessary to benefit the natural resources of such area. Withdraws lands within such area from operation of the mining, mineral leasing, and other mineral entry laws of the United States. Prohibits any activities in the special management area impairing the preservation and protection of the paleontological, archeological, and natural resources of the area, including production of or exploration for oil, gas, or minerals of any kind or the storage or processing of nuclear waste, hazardous waste, or waste of any other kind. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to develop a management plan for the special management area. Authorizes appropriations.

Crop Disaster Assistance Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1990

Crop Disaster Assistance Act of 1990 - Makes the Federal crop insurance provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 inapplicable to the 1991 and subsequent crops. Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, beginning with the 1991 crop year, to make disaster payments available to producers of commodities for which Federal crop insurance was available during the 1990 crop year and to producers of hay and forage crops. Bases eligibility upon county average yield compared with normal county yield. Makes a person with annual gross revenue in excess of $2,000,000 ineligible for payments. Prohibits payments to the extent that a producer receives emergency livestock or emergency loan benefits for the same production losses.

A resolution to express the sense of the Senate strongly opposing any future use of the milk production termination program as a method of controlling the production of milk and milk products.

United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1990

Expresses the sense of the Senate that the milk production termination program should not be extended.

A bill to recognize the importance of the domestic fruit and vegetable industry in United States farm policy, and to require the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct a study of the domestic fruit and vegetable industry, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1990

Declares that the domestic production of fruits and vegetables is a keystone of U.S. farm policy. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to study and report to the Congress on the domestic fruit and vegetable industry.

Conservation Promotion Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1990

Conservation Promotion Act of 1990 - Title I: Conservation Reserve Program - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to make eligible for the conservation reserve program (CRP): (1) environmentally sensitive lands, including sinkholes, filter strips, wetland, and other areas that involve groundwater protection; and (2) uncropped marginal lands that will be planted to trees after CRP enrollment. Extends CRP authority and CRP tree planting authority through 1995. Authorizes 1991 through 1995 enrollment at between 40,000,000 and 50,000,000 acres. Authorizes three to ten-year CRP contract extensions. Provides for farmwide CRP eligibility under specified conditions. Subjects land whose CRP contract has expired to loss of assistance for cropping on highly erodible land. Permits CRP participation of land whose ownership change during the preceding three-year period was due to foreclosure or bankruptcy. Provides for CRP contract extension or optional 15-year contracts for land devoted to hardwood trees, shelterbelts, or windbreaks. Authorizes up to 75 percent cost sharing assistance for hardwood plantings. Waives ownership requirements as necessary for such plantings. States that: (1) no tenant shall lose agricultural benefits eligibility because of another tenants' crop production on the same farm or any other farm; and (2) no person shall lose such eligibility as to any crop on a farm other than the farm on which the production on highly erodible land occurs. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to offer three-year cost-sharing soil restoration contracts under a Soil Restoration Program. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to count each acre devoted to surface water storage as an acre removed from production for purposes of calculating the acreage base under any acreage limitation or land diversion program. Title II: Wetlands - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to direct the Secretary to establish a cost-sharing program of long-term and permanent easements to protect and restore wetlands. Limits fiscal year payments to any owner or operator to $50,000. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to establish a cost sharing program to restore drained wetlands to their natural state and to enroll such land in the wetlands reserve. Exempts a producer from agricultural assistance ineligibility for crop production on wetland if the producer: (1) has a specified 1975-1985 cropping history on such land; or (2) agrees to acre-for-acre mitigation of previously converted wetland. Provides flexible penalties for certain inadvertent violations of the highly erodible land and wetland conservation programs. Title III: Water Quality Protection - Directs the Secretary to establish an Agricultural Water Quality Board to coordinate related Federal activities and ensure consistency with State water quality programs. Authorizes the Secretary to provide land managers with accelerated technical assistance in the development of water quality best management practices. Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish the water management practices cost share program; (2) establish the water quality education and outreach program; (3) accelerate Federal water quality research; and (4) utilize data base information to evaluate water quality best management practices. Authorizes appropriations. Title IV: Integrated Crop Management - Directs the Secretary to establish the integrated crop management research program to conduct research related to economically and environmentally sound farming practices. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to develop integrated crop management technical guides. Authorizes appropriations. Title V: Extension Service - Provides for Extension Service agent training in all aspects of integrated crop management, including specialist training and information dissemination. Title VI: Data Collection - Directs the Secretary to develop and disseminate information concerning the agricultural uses of pesticides and fertilizers. Title VII: Great Plains Conservation Program - Amends the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act to: (1) extend the Great Plains conservation program through FY 2001; and (2) increase the program cost ceiling.

Crop Insurance Improvement Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1990

Crop Insurance Improvement Act of 1990 - Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to: (1) modify the crop insurance premium subsidy for multiple peril insurance; and (2) establish catastrophic loss benefits.