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United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1985
Removes all Commodity Credit Corporation export restrictions. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to increase price supports to more nearly reflect production costs.
United States · United States Senate · 21 March 1985
United States · United States Senate · 21 March 1985
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1985
Agricultural Recovery Act of 1985 - Title I: Supports for Agricultural Commodities - Amends the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 to include within the functions of the National Agricultural Cost Production Standards Review Board a two-year determination of the average cost of production per acre for the 1986 through 1989 wheat and feed grain crops. Extends the Board's termination date from September 30, 1985 to September 30, 1989. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 regarding the 1986 through 1989 wheat and feed grain crops to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) make producer loans and purchases available; (2) make price deficiency payments of at least 65 percent of parity; (3) proclaim national program acreages and acreage limitation and set-aside programs for wheat by June 1 and for feed grains by October 15 of each year; and (4) reduce the minimum allocation factor from 80 percent to 50 percent. Permits haying and grazing on diverted or set-aside wheat acreage. Extends through 1990 specified provisions regarding the nonapplicability of certificate requirements and suspension of marketing quotas for wheat. Makes section 105 of the Agricultural Act of 1949 inapplicable to the 1986 through 1989 feed grain crops. Makes producers personally liable for wheat and feed grain loans in excess of $200,000. Amends the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 to extend through 1989 all wheat and feed grain: (1) payment limitations; (2) Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) sales price restrictions; and (3) supplemental set-aside authority. Requires the Secretary to provide for a production reduction program (at least ten percent less than the 1985 crop) for the 1986 through 1989 wheat and feed grain crops. Title II: Export Authorities - Amends the Food For Peace Act of 1966 to extend the Export Credit Revolving Fund through FY 1989. Amends the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 to require (presently authorizes) the Secretary to implement the special standby export subsidy program under specified conditions. Permits the use of CCC stocks in such program. Title III: Soil Conservation - Subtitle A: General Provisions - Defines specified terms, including "erosion-prone cropland" and highly erodible land." Subtitle B: Program Ineligibility for Production on Highly Erodible Land - Makes persons who cultivate crops on highly erodible land ineligible for price supports, crop insurance, and other specified agricultural loans. Provides exceptions for: (1) crops produced using approved conservation methods; and (2) certain land previously cultivated through FY 1985. Directs the Secretary to complete as soon as possible certain land capability surveys. Subtitle C: Cropland Base Protection Study - Directs the Secretary to: (1) make a study of various set-aside programs and report to the appropriate congressional committees by February 15, 1986; and (2) conduct an economic study of current soil conservation programs and report to the appropriate congressional committees within nine months. Subtitle D: Conservation Reserve Program - Directs the Secretary to enter into long-term (seven to 15 years) contracts through FY 1988 with agricultural producers to convert erosion-prone cropland into soil or water conservation uses. Directs the Secretary to: (1) provide technical assistance; (2) share the cost of carrying out such conservation measures; and (3) pay an annual fee to participating producers. Sets payment limits for each of FY 1986 through 1988. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle E: Administrative Provisions - Directs the Secretary to: (1) publish implementing regulations within 180 days; and (2) establish appeal procedures. Title IV: Storage of Agricultural Commodities - Subtitle A: Storage of Grain Owned or Controlled by Community Credit Corporation - Prohibits storage of CCC grain in a non-Federal facility unless such facility is licensed under the United States Warehouse Act or approved or exempted by the Secretary. Directs the Secretary to make approved facility financial information available to producers. Subtitle B: Federal Crop Insurance - Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to include within such Act's coverage certain losses caused by insolvent approved storage facilities. Requires the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation to report annually for five years to the appropriate congressional committees regarding such facilities insurance. Title V: Long-Term Agricultural Policy Commission - Establishes a National Commission on Long-Term Agricultural Policy to conduct a study of the structure, procedure, and methods of formulating and administering U.S. agriculture-related policies and programs. Requires a report to the President and to the Congress within 18 months. Terminates the Commission 60 days after submission of such report.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1985
Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to make permanent the repeal of the noncost benefit requirement for the Puerto Rico nutrition assistance program. Requires that the maximum amount of the Puerto Rico block grant be adjusted to reflect food price changes in Puerto Rico.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1985
Permits a State or political subdivision to use money received from the Secretary of Agriculture for use in the control and eradication of brucellosis of domestic animals to: (1) test and vaccinate animals for brucellosis; and (2) pay claims due to the destruction of animals affected by or exposed to brucellosis.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1985
Agricultural Trade Amendment Act of 1985 - Amends the Commodity Credit Corporation Act to provide that agricultural exports, except for those under the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (P.L. 480), shall not be subject to cargo preference requirements.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1985
Modified Agricultural Debt Recovery Act of 1985 - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to authorize additional funds for FY 1985 Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund or Rural Development Insurance Fund loan guarantees. Modifies the approved lender program to: (1) require lender applications to be approved or disapproved within ten days; (2) set maximum interest rates at two and one-half percent above the Federal Reserve rate; (3) extend the maximum loan repayment period to 15 years; (4) permit lenders to convert loans to federally guaranteed or insured loans (caps insured loans at 35 percent, and insured and guaranteed loans at 60 percent guarantees); and (5) entitle the lender and the Secretary of Agriculture to pro rated shares of any defaulted loan liquidation.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1985
Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to extend until 30 days after sine die adjournment of the first session of the 99th Congress the referendum period with respect to the national wheat marketing quota for the marketing year beginning June 1, 1986.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1985
Agricultural Export Act of 1985 - Amends the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 to authorize the donation of Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) surpluses to U.S. exporters, processors, and foreign purchasers in order to neutralize the effects of foreign export subsidy programs. Amends the Food for Peace Act of 1966 to provide intermediate credit for agricultural exports. Requires the CCC to make specified funds available in FY 1986 for such purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1985
Amends the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 to provide that a buyer in the ordinary course of business who buys farm products from a seller engaged in farming operations shall take free of any seller-created security interest even though the buyer knows of its existence, unless within 12 months before the sale the buyer: (1) received notice of the security interest and of any payment obligations imposed by the secured party as conditions for waiver or release of the security interest and (2) has failed to perform such obligations. Sets forth parallel provisions for commission merchants or selling agents.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1985
Farm Emergency Credit Act of 1985 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to make advance (recourse) price support loans available for 1985 to producers unable to secure sufficient credit elsewhere. Makes up to 50 percent of such crop eligible for advance payments. Permits loan conversion to nonrecourse status upon harvest and availability as loan collateral. Administers such program through the Commodity Credit Corporation and the local farmer committees. Requires a participating producer to: (1) obtain crop insurance if available; and (2) use his crop as loan collateral. Limits loans to any single person to $200,000.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1985
Agriculture, Food, Trade, and Conservation Act of 1985 - Title I: Agricultural Exports and Public Law 480 - Subtitle A: Commercial Export Programs - Amends the Food for Peace Act of 1966 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture, through the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC), to guarantee intermediate loans made to finance agricultural export sales. Requires that such guaranteed or financed sales be made to purchasers from countries that: (1) have previously received assistance under title I of Public Law 480; and (2) are unable to use other Department of Agriculture short-term export credit programs. Expands the uses for which export credit financing and guarantees may be made to include agricultural export sales promotion. Requires the CCC to make specified amounts available for intermediate credit purposes for FY 1986 through 1991. Requires the Secretary to: (1) sell through the CCC specified amounts of dairy products for export for FY 1986 through 1988; and (2) report annually to the appropriate congressional committees. Authorizes the Secretary to provide U.S. exporters and users and foreign purchasers with surplus agricultural commodities and products at no cost in order to expand overseas markets. Makes eligible for supplementary commodity distributions those foreign purchasers who use the receipts from the sale of such products to construct or rehabilitate facilities used to market U.S. agricultural imports. Exempts such commodity distributions, blended credit, and emergency food relief activities from cargo preference requirements. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should initiate a new round of multilateral trade negotiations with U.S. trading partners to: (1) strengthen the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT); (2) improve the GATT dispute settlement procedure; and (3) bring agricultural trade issues within the purview of GATT rules and procedures. Directs the Secretary to use specified CCC funds or commodities for FY 1986 through 1988 export assistance for those commodities adversely affected by foreign subsidies or market practices. Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (Public Law 480) to direct the President to: (1) consider the benefits to the United States and the nutritional assistance to recipients from the donation of processed and protein-fortified agricultural products; and (2) take steps to ensure that an appropriate share of commodity donations is in such form. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Secretary fund export market development programs for value-added farm products at higher than FY 1985 levels. Amends the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to require (current law authorizes) the CCC, to the maximum extent practicable, to barter commodities for strategic and critical materials. States that if the volume of petroleum products in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is less than the level prescribed under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act the CCC shall, with the approval of the Secretary of Agriculture and in consultation with the Secretaries of Energy and of State, accept petroleum products in exchange for agricultural commodities and transfer such products without reimbursement to the Reserve. Directs the Secretary to: (1) conduct a study of the feasibility and effect of permitting CCC-guaranteed obligations under the export credit sales programs to be traded in a secondary market without CCC approval; and (2) report within one year to the appropriate congressional committees. Subtitle B: Public Law 480 and Related Programs - Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (Public Law 480) to permit credit sales of agricultural commodities with repayment in foreign currency. Requires: (1) repayment within four years from the date of delivery; and (2) interest rates at not less than Treasury costs. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into agreements with financial intermediaries (as defined by this Act) in developing countries for the use of foreign currencies accrued from such commodity sales. Sets forth related provisions. Requires an annual program report to the appropriate congressional committees. Authorizes the Secretary to provide related technical assistance, including the funding of market development activities. Repeals the provisions requiring minimum aggregate value of agreements under the Food for Development Program. Extends Public Law 480 program authorities through FY 1991. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to authorize the President to enter into agreements with developing countries to furnish agricultural products to promote the implementation of long-term free-enterprise agricultural policies. Provides with regard to such program that: (1) the Secretary shall furnish such products through CCC stocks or CCC-purchased commodities; (2) not more than 500,000 metric tons of commodities may be provided in each of FY 1986 through 1989; (3) deliveries may be on a multi-year basis; (4) cargo preference requirements shall not apply; (5) the National Security Advisor in the Executive Office of the President shall serve as coordinator; (6) resale or transshipment shall be prohibited; (7) precautions shall be taken to avoid displacing U.S. agricultural sales; and (8) the President shall report annually to the Congress. Title II: Dairy - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to extend the dairy price support program through FY 1991. Sets support levels for FY 1986 at $11.60 per hundredweight, and for each of FY 1987 through 1991 at the preceding year's level adjusted by estimated Government purchases. Authorizes the Secretary, after a 60-day public notice, to increase supports by 50 cents per year if necessary to ensure an adequate milk supply. Extends milk marketing order authority through 1991. Title III: Wool and Mohair - Amends the National Wool Act of 1954 to extend the wool and mohair price support program through 1991. Establishes the support price as the larger of: (1) the preceding year's level less 15 percent; or (2) the previous five years' average price, excluding the high and low years. States that once the support price reaches the preceding five-year average price, that shall be the basis for determining the support price. Title IV: Wheat - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to set loan and purchase levels (market intervention rate) for the 1986 through 1991 wheat crops at between 75 percent and 85 percent of the preceding five years' average, excluding high and low years. Requires separate market intervention rates for: (1) hard red winter wheat; (2) soft red winter wheat; (3) hard red spring wheat; (4) white wheat; and (5) Durum wheat. Sets the Federal guaranteed price (target price) at between 110 percent and 125 percent of the market intervention rate. Authorizes reduced yield disaster payments (50 percent of the Federal guaranteed price) for producers for whom Federal crop insurance is unavailable. Requires the Secretary to proclaim a national program acreage by August 1 of each year. Permits adjustment as necessary to increase or decrease wheat stocks. Requires the Secretary to determine a program allocation factor between 80 and 100 percent for each crop. Authorizes acreage limitation, set-aside, and paid diversion (including multi-year diversion programs) if needed to prevent overproduction. Makes persons who knowingly produce in excess of such limits ineligible for wheat loans and payments. Requires such acreage to be used for conservation purposes, including wildlife, haying, grazing, or the production of certain strategic or industrial-use crops. Authorizes the Secretary to make land diversion payments whether or not an acreage limitation or set-aside program is in effect. Requires, as a condition of program eligibility, that producers use conservation practices determined by the local soil conservation district to be appropriate for the area. Authorizes the Secretary to make additional producer payments if the land is opened to public hunting, fishing, or hiking. Suspends specified marketing quota and certificate provisions. Title V: Feed Grains - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to set loan and purchase levels for the 1986 through 1991 corn crops at between 75 percent and 85 percent of the preceding five years' average, excluding high and low years. States that loan and purchase rates for grain sorghums, oats, rye, and barley shall be determined in relation to corn rates. Sets the Federal guaranteed corn price at between 110 percent and 125 percent of the market intervention rate. States that such price for the other feed grains shall be determined in relation to the corn price. Authorizes reduced yield disaster payments (50 percent of the Federal guaranteed price) for producers for whom Federal crop insurance is unavailable. Requires the Secretary to proclaim a national program acreage by November 1 of each year. Permits adjustment as necessary to increase or decrease feed grain stocks. Requires the Secretary to determine a program allocation factor between 80 percent and 100 percent for each crop. Authorizes acreage limitation, set-aside, and paid diversion programs (including multi-year diversion programs) if needed to prevent overproduction. Makes persons who knowingly produce in excess of such limits ineligible for feed grain loans and payments. Requires such acreage to be used for conservation purposes, including wildlife, haying, grazing or the production of certain strategic or industrial-use crops. Authorizes the Secretary to make land diversion payments whether or not an acreage limitation or set-aside program is in effect. Requires, as a condition of program eligibility, that producers use conservation practices determined by the local soil conservation district to be appropriate for the area. Authorizes the Secretary to make additional producer payments if the land is open to public hunting, fishing, or hiking. Suspends specified acreage allotment provisions. Title VI: Cotton - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to set ten-month levels for the 1986 through 1991 upland cotton crops at the lower of: (1) between 75 percent and 85 percent of the preceding five years' average U.S. spot market price for Strict Low Middling one-and-one-sixteenth-inch upland cotton; or (2) such figure, plus five percent of the average Northern Europe price for Middling one-and-three-thirty seconds inch upland cotton (as determined by a formula set forth in this Act). Directs the Secretary to determine and announce the market intervention rate by November 1 of the calendar year preceding the marketing year for which such level is to be effective. Authorizes eight-month loan extensions upon producer request unless the previous month's average upland cotton price exceeded 130 percent of the preceding 36 months' average price, in which case the President shall proclaim a special import quota (as provided for by this Act). Sets the Federal guaranteed upland cotton price at between 110 percent and 125 percent of the market intervention rate. Authorizes reduced yield disaster payments (one-third of the Federal guaranteed price) for producers for whom Federal crop insurance is unavailable. Requires the Secretary to proclaim a national program acreage by November 1 of each year. Permits adjustment as necessary to increase or decrease upland cotton stocks. Requires the Secretary to determine a program allocation factor not to exceed 100 percent for each crop. Authorizes acreage limitation and paid diversion programs (including multi-year diversion programs) if needed to prevent overproduction. Makes persons who knowingly produce in excess of such limits ineligible for upland cotton loans and payments. Provides for the conservation use of such acreage. Authorizes the Secretary to make land diversion payments whether or not an acreage limitation program is in effect. Requires, as a condition of program eligibility, that producers use conservation practices determined by the local soil conservation district to be appropriate for the area. Requires the Secretary to make seed cotton loans available to producers under the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act. Suspends specified acreage allotment and marketing quota provisions. Requires the CCC to sell upland cotton for unrestricted use at the same prices as it sells cotton for export, but at no less than appropriate to maintain and expand domestic and foreign markets. Title VII: Rice - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to set loan and purchase levels for the 1986 through 1991 rice crops at between 75 percent and 85 percent of the preceding five years' average, excluding high and low years. Requires separate market intervention rates for: (1) long grain rice; and (2) short and medium grain rice. Requires the Secretary to announce the market intervention rate and the Federal guaranteed price by March 1 of each year. Sets the Federal guaranteed price at between 110 percent and 125 percent of the market Authorizes reduced yield disaster payments (one-third of the Federal guaranteed price) for producers for whom Federal crop insurance is unavailable. Requires the Secretary to proclaim a national program acreage by January 31 of each year. Permits adjustment as necessary to increase or decrease rice stocks. Requires the Secretary to determine a program allocation factor between 80 percent and 100 percent for each crop. Authorizes acreage limitation and paid diversion programs (including multi-year diversion programs) if needed to prevent overproduction. Makes persons who knowingly produce in excess of such limits ineligible for rice loans and payments. Requires such acreage to be used for conservation purposes, including wildlife, haying, grazing, or the production of certain strategic or industrial-use crops. Authorizes the Secretary to make land diversion payments whether or not an acreage limitation program is in effect. Requires, as a condition of program eligibility, that producers use conservation practices determined by the local soil conservation district to be appropriate for the area. Authorizes the Secretary to make additional producer payments if the land is opened to public hunting, fishing, or hiking. Title VIII: Peanuts - Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to set the national poundage quota for peanuts for each of the 1986 through 1991 marketing years at 1,100,000 tons. Authorizes the Secretary to increase the quota to meet estimated requirements for domestic edible use and a reasonable carryover. States that the national poundage quota shall be apportioned among the States so that each State's allotment shall equal its 1985 allotment. Establishes farm poundage quotas for each farm which had a 1985 quota. Requires the Secretary to conduct a quota program referendum by December 15 of each year to determine if producers favor or oppose such quotas. Defines "quota peanuts" and "additional peanuts" and applies such terms to the 1986 through 1991 peanut crops. Permits an owner or farm operator: (1) for which a farm poundage quota has been established under this Act to sell or lease all or part of such quota to any other owner or operator of a farm within the same county for transfer to such farm; or (2) to transfer all or part of such quota to another farm owned or controlled by such owner or operator that is in the same county or in a contiguous county in the same State having a 1985 quota. Sets forth related transfer conditions. Provides that the penalty for excess marketing of quota peanuts for domestic edible use shall be 140 percent of the support price for such peanuts. Subjects the marketing of additional peanuts to the same penalty unless such peanuts: (1) are placed under loan; (2) are marketed through marketing associations; or (3) are marketed under handler contracts for export or crushing. States that only quota peanuts may be retained for seed or other farm uses. Requires contracts with handlers for the purchase of additional peanuts to be submitted to the Secretary by June 15 (currently by April 15). Authorizes CCC peanuts to be made available for domestic edible use. Authorizes price supports for the 1986 through 1991 peanut crops. Sets the quota peanut rate at the preceding year's rate adjusted to reflect any increase (limited to not more than six percent) in production costs. Directs the Secretary to set the additional peanut rate: (1) taking into consideration domestic and foreign demand and prices; and (2) to ensure that the CCC suffers no losses on the sale of such peanuts. Requires the Secretary to announce support levels by February 15. Authorizes the Secretary to make warehouse storage loans available to peanut marketing associations (with specified exceptions). Suspends specified marketing quota, acreage allotment, and price support provisions for such crops. Title IX: Soybeans - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to set loan and purchase levels for the 1986 through 1991 soybean crops at between 75 percent and 85 percent of the preceding five years' average, excluding high and low years. Requires the Secretary to announce support levels by October 1. Provides that: (1) the Secretary shall not require participation in any production adjustment program as a condition of eligibility for price supports; (2) soybeans shall not be considered an eligible commodity for any reserve program; and (3) the Secretary shall not authorize storage payments. Title X: Sugar and Honey - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to set 1986 through 1991 sugarcane price support levels at 18 cents per pound. Sets sugar beet support levels in relation to such rate. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to set 1986 through 1991 honey loan and purchase levels at between 75 percent and 85 percent of the preceding five years' average, excluding high and low years. Title XI: Producer Reserve Program - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to extend the wheat and feed grain reserve program. Amends such program to provide that loans may not exceed three years in length (presently three to five years). Provides for: (1) at least quarterly payments to producers; and (2) early loan repayment or redemption of crops used to secure such loans . Repeals the provision regarding sales of CCC wheat and feed grain stocks while such reserve program is in effect. Requires the Secretary to permit producers with existing reserve loan agreements to modify them in conformance with this Act. Title XII: Miscellaneous Commodity Provisions - Limits 1986 through 1991 program payments (excluding disaster payments) for wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, extra long staple cotton, rice, and wool and mohair to an amount not in excess of the national median family income. Limits 1986 through 1991 disaster payments for wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, and rice to $50,000. Subjects the value of payment-in-kind commodities to such limits. States that for the 1986 through 1991 crops, the CCC may sell any of its stocks of wheat, corn, grain sorghum, barley, oats, rye, rice, sugar, and honey at price levels as the Secretary determines appropriate to maintain and expand domestic and export markets for such commodities. Authorizes the Secretary to require as a condition of eligibility for support benefits that whenever a set-aside program is in effect for any of the 1986 wheat or feed grain crops, producers not exceed the normally-planted acreage as reduced by any set-aside or diverted acreage. Requires that any person who receives a CCC price support or reserve loan shall be liable for any accrued interest. Title XIII: Food Stamp and Commodity Distribution Amendments - Subtitle A: Food Stamp Integrity and Accountability - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to repeal the provision permitting persons living with others but purchasing and preparing their own food to be treated as a separate food stamp household. Authorizes States to treat such persons as individual households. Repeals the provision exempting portions of student loans or grants from being considered as income for purposes of food stamp program (program) eligibility and benefits. Requires that the income and resources of ineligible students be counted in determining eligibility and benefits for the remaining household. Includes nonrecurring lump-sum payments as income for program purposes (presently excludable). Requires such payments to be treated as they are treated under the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program. Excludes from being considered as a resource the household's principal dwelling, surrounding lot (up to ten acres), and burial plots. Authorizes States to disqualify persons for fraud or misrepresentation without an administrative hearing. Requires prior notice and opportunity for a hearing. Requires that all resources (presently a pro rata share) of an ineligible alien be considered in determining eligibility and benefits of the household of which such alien is a member. Repeals the cash change provision. Requires each adult member of a household that is applying for the program or is required to file specified reports to certify in writing, under penalty of perjury, to the truth of the information contained in the application or report. Makes discretionary (presently mandatory) expedited coupon issuance for certain households. Requires States to implement a photographic identification card system for program recipients. Requires States to establish fraud detection offices in areas with 5000 or more program households. States that retail or wholesale food stores disqualified from program participation shall also be ineligible during such period for participation in the supplemental food program for women, infants, and children (WIC). States that each member of a household shall be jointly and severally liable for the value of any coupon overissuance. Requires States to collect overissuances resulting from State agency error. Requires (current law authorizes) States to collect specified other overissuances. Authorizes States to intercept unemployment benefits in order to satisfy fraud or misrepresentation overissuances. Requires a retail or wholesale food store, in order to obtain a judicial stay of an administrative penalty, to demonstrate the same conditions as locally required for a judicial stay of an administrative order. (Presently a showing of irreparable injury is required.) Revises State agency liability provisions to make such agencies liable for payment error rates above three percent. Reduces the percentage of Federal cost-sharing for automatic data processing from 75 percent to 50 percent (five percent reductions beginning in FY 1988). Authorizes the Inspector General of the Department of Agriculture to develop geographical error-prone profiles. Authorizes the Secretary to impose appropriate requirements in such areas. Requires the Secretary to report annually to the appropriate congressional committees, beginning 12 months after enactment of this Act. Requires States that impose a tax on food purchased with food stamps to pay to the Treasury for each fiscal year an amount equal to the total value of food stamps issued in that State in that fiscal year multiplied by the sales tax. Authorizes the Secretary to withhold administrative cost-sharing funds for noncompliance. Revises the Puerto Rico block grant program to make permanent the existing temporary (through September 30, 1985) suspension of the noncash program requirement. Requires States to have a workfare program. Subtitle B: Food Stamp Optional Block Grant - Authorizes States to operate a low-income nutritional assistance block grant program instead of the Federal food stamp program. Sets forth program provisions. Subtitle C: Other Deficit Reduction Provisions - States that households shall be charged (not to exceed 30 percent of income) for food stamp allotments. Exempts households: (1) with an elderly or disabled member; and (2) of four persons with a monthly income of less than $30. Delays from October 1, 1985, to January 1, 1987, the thrifty food plan and the excess shelter deduction inflation adjustments and makes the adjustment date in subsequent years January 1. Establishes the gross income eligibility standard as 130 percent of the poverty line as in effect on January 1, 1985. Authorizes program appropriations for FY 1986 through 1989. Subtitle D: Grace Commission Recommendations - Revises the definition of "thrifty food plan" to reflect the frequency of participation by various categories of participants. Includes in monthly income the value (as determined under this Act) of monthly child nutrition assistance provided in that month. Repeals the ten dollar minimum monthly allotment for one and two-person households. Subtitle E: Commodity Distribution Amendments - Amends the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973 to extend through FY 1989: (1) commodity distribution program authority; and (2) administrative cost reimbursement. Repeals authority for low-income elderly persons pilot projects. Subtitle F: Effective Date - Makes the provisions of this title effective on October 1, 1985. Title XIV: Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching - Amends the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 to express the sense of the Congress that Department of Agriculture research, extension, and teaching activities relating to agricultural technology should emphasize technology that will benefit small and moderate-sized farms. Amends competitive agricultural research grant provisions to: (1) require recipients to provide 20 percent matching funds; and (2) require at least 50 percent of such funds to be used for agricultural research of use to small and moderate-sized farms. Repeals special research grant authority. Requires at least 50 percent of Smith-Lever funds to be used by the Extension Service for the delivery of agricultural technology of use to small and moderate-sized farms. Repeals authority for the expanded food and nutrition education program. Prohibits the Secretary from conducting such programs after September 30, 1985. Establishes a special matching research program for private sector technology development. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into cost-sharing reimbursable cooperative agreements through FY 1991 for such purposes. Obligates at least one-half percent of annual Agricultural Research Service appropriations for such purposes. Limits annual and total Federal expenditures for any particular project. Requires at least 50 percent matching funds. Includes new and alternative industrial uses for agricultural crops within the category of priority agricultural research grants. Obligates at least ten percent of competitive grant appropriations for such purpose. Includes the establishment of controls for the use of biotechnology (in agricultural applications) with the Secretary's research and extension responsibilities. Authorizes FY 1986 through 1991 appropriations for: (1) agricultural research; (2) higher education in the food and agricultural sciences; (3) continuing animal health and disease research; (4) land grant colleges; (5) agricultural research facilities, including State experiment stations; (6) extension education; (7) aquaculture assistance; and (8) rangeland research. Title XV: Highly Erodible Land Conservation - Makes any person who cultivates crops on highly erodible land ineligible for such year for: (1) price supports or payments; (2) farm storage facility loans; (3) crop insurance; (4) disaster payments; or (5) other specified agricultural loans. Exempts crops planted: (1) on land cultivated from 1976 through 1985; (2) before enactment of this Act; or (3) under specified conservation systems. Directs the Secretary to: (1) use the county committees in administering this title; (2) establish an appeal procedure for land capability classifications; and (3) complete certain soil capability surveys as soon as practicable. Title XVI: Agricultural Credit - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to prohibit the Secretary from making, guaranteeing , or insuring: (1) real estate loans after September 30, 1991; (2) recreational development and community facility loans after September 30, 1985; (3) water, drainage, or waste disposal loans after September 30, 1986; and (4) business and industrial loans after September 30, 1985. Requires the Secretary, beginning with FY 1988, to raise the interest rates on new farm ownership and operating loans (except for guaranteed loans) by not less than one percent nor more than one and one-quarter percent per year, until such loan rates are approximately equal to prevailing commercial rates. Limits eligibility for new insured operating loans to borrowers who already have an insured loan, except for low-income limited resource borrowers. Prohibits the making of any emergency loan for production losses that could have been insured against under the Federal Crop Insurance Act. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) compromise, adjust, reduce, or charge-off claims and adjust, modify, subordinate, or release the terms of security interests, leases, contracts, and agreements previously entered into by the Farmers Home Administration; and (2) release borrowers from personal liability, with or without consideration, at the time the terms of the loan contract are adjusted or modified. Establishes FY 1986 through 1991 loan amounts for: (1) farm ownership and operations; and (2) emergency loans. Establishes FY 1986 loan amounts for water and sewer facility loans. Title XVII: Effective Date - Makes provisions of this Act effective upon enactment, except as otherwise provided.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1985
Amends Federal law to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to enter into commitments to guarantee or insure authorized loans in the full amount provided by law subject only to: (1) the availability of qualified applicants; and (2) limitations in appropriation Acts.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1985
Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture, in exchange for partial cancellation of the debt involved, to acquire long-term easements for conservation, recreational, and wildlife purposes in wetlands, upland, and highly erodible land securing delinquent Farmers Home Administration loans. Sets forth a formula for calculating the borrower debt reduction.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1985
Farm Credit Administration Act of 1985 - Amends the Farm Credit Act of 1971 to direct the Federal Land Banks to offer 20-year mortgage loans for agricultural or aquacultural land purchases. Sets forth lending limits on fully and non-fully secured loans. Directs the Farm Credit Administration to establish a central reserve for the Farm Credit System (FCS). Sets forth operating provisions. Directs the Comptroller General to: (1) audit FCS for FY 1985 and for each fifth fiscal year thereafter; and (2) report to the Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1985
Expresses the sense of the Congress that Federal farm loan foreclosures and related sales or liquidations shall be halted until new farm legislation is passed and the real estate and agricultural economy are able to recover and stabilize.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1985
Fragile Lands Conservation Act of 1985 - Makes a person who produces an agricultural commodity on highly erodible land ineligible for five years (with respect to all commodities) for agricultural price supports, storage facility loans, crop insurance, disaster payments, and other Farmers Home Administration loans. Provides exceptions for: (1) crops produced using approved conservation methods; and (2) certain previously cultivated land (1980 through 1985). Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to complete specified soil capability class surveys.
United States · United States Senate · 5 March 1985
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1985
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to transfer specified lands known as North Rumsey Park, Payson, Arizona, to the Town of Payson, Arizona.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1985
Sulfite Safety Act of 1985 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prohibit the use of sulfiting agents in raw fruits and vegetables. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to reevaluate and report to the Congress on the use of such agents in other foods, including wine, dried fruit, and seafood.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1985
Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1985 - Title I: Agricultural Trade and Export Expansion - States that it is U.S. policy to: (1) promote free trade in agriculture by negotiating with key U.S. trading partners to remove agricultural trade restrictions; and (2) remove U.S. import restrictions as part of a program of mutual opening of markets. Amends the Trade Act of 1974, as amended, to require the U.S. Trade Representative to submit a separate compilation of the analysis and estimate of U.S. agricultural exports to the appropriate congressional committees. Directs the U.S. Trade Representative and the Secretary of Agriculture (the Secretary) to seek to eliminate barriers to U.S. agricultural products. Requires a report to the Congress if negotiations are not proceeding satisfactorily. Directs the President to recommend to the Congress a plan for the reciprocal phasing out of agricultural trade barriers. Directs the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC), in making export credit guarantees, to consider a country's credit standing, and whether such guarantees will foster U.S. agricultural exports. Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (Public Law 480) to extend sales and assistance program authority through FY 2000. Directs the Secretary to conduct an agricultural export study and report to the Congress within one year. Title II: Wheat - Directs the Secretary to make loans to producers of the 1986 and subsequent wheat crops who pledge their crops as loan security. Sets the basic loan rate for each class of wheat at 75 percent of the preceding three years' national average market price. Requires loan repayment within nine months. Directs the Secretary to make payments for each class of wheat based on the payment rate, planted acreage, and the farm's payment yield. Directs the Secretary to establish an acreage reduction program for the 1986 through 1988 wheat crops. Requires planted acreage for such years to be reduced by 15 percent, ten percent, and five percent, respectively. Makes a producer in excess of the permitted acreage ineligible for loans and payments. Permits the Secretary to adjust farm acreage bases. Requires that a portion of such acreage be devoted to conservation uses. Title III: Feed Grains - Directs the Secretary to make loans to producers of each of the 1986 and subsequent crops of corn, grain sorghum, and barley who pledge their crops as loan security. Sets the basic loan rate for each crop at 75 percent of the preceding three years' national average market price. Requires loan repayment within nine months. Directs the Secretary to make payments for each crop based on the payment rate, planted acreage, and the farm's payment yield. Directs the Secretary to establish an acreage reduction program for the 1986 through 1988 crops. Requires planted acreage for such years to be reduced by 15 percent, ten percent, and five percent, respectively. Permits the Secretary to adjust farm acreage bases. Requires that a portion of such acreage be devoted to conservation uses. Title IV: Cotton - Directs the Secretary to make loans to producers of each of the 1986 and subsequent crops of upland cotton and extra long staple cotton who pledge their crops as loan security. Sets the basic loan rate for each crop at 75 percent of the preceding three years' national average market price. Requires loan repayment within nine months. Directs the Secretary to make payments for each crop based on the payment rate, planted acreage, and the farm's payment yield. Directs the Secretary to establish an acreage reduction program for the 1986 through 1988 crops. Requires planted acreage for such years to be reduced by 15 percent, ten percent, and five percent, respectively. Permits the Secretary to adjust farm acreage bases. Requires that a portion of such acreage be devoted to conservation uses. Title V: Rice - Directs the Secretary to make loans to producers of each of the 1986 and subsequent crops of rice who pledge their crops as loan security. Sets the basic loan rate for each crop at 75 percent of the preceding three years' national average market price. Requires loan repayment within nine months. Directs the Secretary to establish an acreage reduction program for the 1986 through 1988 crops. Requires planted acreage for such years to be reduced by 15 percent, ten percent, and five percent, respectively. Makes a person who produces in excess of the permitted acreage ineligible for loans and payments. Permits the Secretary to adjust farm acreage bases. Requires that a portion of such acreage be devoted to conservation uses. Title VI: Soybeans - Directs the Secretary to make loans to producers of each of the 1986 and subsequent soybean crops who pledge their crops as loan security. Sets the basic loan rate for each crop at 75 percent of the preceding three years' national average market price. Requires loan repayment within nine months. Title VII: Dairy - Sets the dairy price support level through FY 1987 at $11.60 per hundredweight. Provides for two specified 50-cent per hundredweight price support reductions if purchases exceed specified amounts. Directs the Secretary to make milk payments for each of the fiscal years after FY 1987 based upon the payment rate and quantity of milk or milk products marketed in such fiscal year. Sets forth payment rate schedules for each of FY 1988 through 1991 and subsequent fiscal years. Directs the Secretary to appoint a ten-member task force to: (1) study the milk marketing order program; and (2) prepare a report by September 30, 1990. Extends through December 31, 1989, the authority for seasonal adjustment plans in milk marketing orders. Title VIII: Peanuts - Directs the Secretary to make loans to producers of each of the 1986 and subsequent peanut crops who pledge their crops as loan security. Sets the basic loan rate for each crop at the smaller of: (1) 75 percent of the preceding three years' national average market price; or (2) $250 per ton. Requires loan repayment within nine months. Directs the Secretary to make payments for each of the 1986 and subsequent peanut crops based upon the quantity of eligible peanuts and the payment rate. Sets forth quantity eligible formulas for the 1986 through 1990 crops, and for the 1991 and subsequent crops. Sets the 1986 payment rate at the amount by which the national average market price is less than $550 per ton. Sets the 1987 and subsequent payment rates as the amount by which the year's market price is less than the three preceding years' national average market price multiplied by: (1) 95 percent for 1987; (2) 90 percent for 1988; (3) 85 percent for 1989; (4) 80 percent for 1990; and (5) 75 percent for 1991 and each subsequent year. Provides with regard to 1986 through 1990 payment quota transfers that: (1) if a farm is transferred to a new owner the quota shall remain with the farm; (2) a quota may be permanently transferred upon death, by gift, or to a family member's farm; and (3) a temporary quota transfer may be made if both owner and operator agree in writing and such transfer is to such operator's farm. Title IX: Sugar - Directs the Secretary to make loans to producers of the 1986 and subsequent sugar cane and sugar beet crops. Sets the basic loan rate at 75 percent of the preceding three years' national average market price (raw value). Limits the sugar cane rate to no more than 12 cents per pound. Authorizes the Secretary to determine parallel sugar beet loan rates. Directs the Secretary to take steps to avoid accumulating excess CCC sugar stocks. Directs the Secretary to make payments for each of the 1986 and subsequent sugar cane and sugar beet crops based upon payment rate and quantity. Sets the 1986 through 1990 payment rates for sugar cane as the amount by which the year's market price is less than the greater of 75 percent of the preceding three years' market price, or: (1) 18 cents per pound for 1986; (2) 16 cents per pound for 1987; (3) 14 cents per pound for 1988; and (4) 12 cents per pound for 1989 and 1990. Sets the payment rates for sugar beets as the amount by which the national average market price is less than: (1) for each of the 1986 through 1990 crops, an amount determined by the Secretary in relation to the sugar cane rate; and (2) for each of the 1991 and subsequent crops, 75 percent of the preceding three years' national average market price. Title X: Wool and Mohair - Directs the Secretary to make loans to producers of wool and mohair for each of the 1986 and subsequent crops. Sets the 1986 and subsequent payment rates for mohair and wool at the amount by which the year's market price is less than the smaller of $5.17 per pound or the three preceding years' national average market price multiplied by: (1) 100 percent for 1986; (2) 95 percent for 1987; (3) 90 percent for 1988; (4) 85 percent for 1989; (5) 80 percent for 1990; and (6) 75 percent for 1991 and subsequent years. Title XI: Food Assistance Reserve - Authorizes the Secretary to establish a wheat and feed grain food assistance reserve. Title XII: General Provisions - Places specified program limits on amounts that a person may receive under this Act. Permits a person applying for specified commodity loans under this Act to designate such a loan as a nonrecourse loan. Limits such total amounts to $200,000. Provides that: (1) the borrower shall not be personally liable for any deficiency arising from the sale of collateral securing such a loan unless the loan was fraudulently obtained; and (2) the payment rate shall be the lesser of the otherwise applicable payment rate or the amount by which the national average market price for the collateral-commodity is less than the loan rate for the collateral. Directs the Secretary to ascertain the acreage of any commodity or land use on a farm in order to determine program compliance under this Act. Permits remeasurement upon farm operator request. Provides that when the ownership of a tract of land is transferred from a parent farm, any payment quota, history acreage and base acreage for the farm shall be divided between such tract and the parent farm in the same proportion as the tract cropland acreage bears to the parent farm cropland acreage. Permits the Secretary to provide alternative apportionment in certain situations. Permits the Secretary to make advance commodity payments. Title XIII: Repeal of Prior Legislation - Repeals specified provisions of: (1) the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938; (2) the Agricultural Act of 1949; (3) the Agricultural Act of 1948; (4) the Food and Agriculture Act of 1965; (5) the Food and Agriculture Act of 1962; (6) the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981; (7) the Agricultural Act of 1970; (8) the Food Security Wheat Reserve Act of 1980; (9) the Agricultural Trade Suspension Adjustment Act of 1980; (10) the National Wool Act; (11) the Agricultural Marketing Act; and (12) other specified Federal laws. Title XIV: National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act Amendments of 1985 - National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act Amendments of 1985 - Amends the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 to repeal the provision requiring the Secretary, in cooperation with other appropriate agencies, to develop a long-term assessment for food, fiber, and forest products. Extends through FY 1989 the term of: (1) the Joint Council on Food and Agricultural Sciences; and (2) the National Agricultural Research and Extension Users Advisory Board. Increases such Board's membership and eliminates specified reporting requirements. Eliminates specified needs assessment information from the Secretary's annual agricultural extension, research, and teaching report. Amends Federal law to establish a program of competitive research grants, with emphasis in areas of high priority research, including new techniques, biotechnology, human nutrition, soil and water research, and industrial use of agricultural products. Authorizes annual appropriations. Amends the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 to increase administrative cost appropriations from four percent to five percent. Amends the Research Facilities Act to authorize grants on a matching basis. Permits such funds to be used to finance research equipment. Increases administrative cost appropriations from three percent to five percent. Authorizes annual appropriations within the limits of specified overall authorizations of appropriations. Revises the definition of "State" to include the District of Columbia, Guam, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and Micronesia. Revises the definition of "eligible institution" to include forestry or veterinary departments. Eliminates the requirement that food and agricultural sciences education grants be made without regard to recipient-provided matching grants. Requires a recipient institution to have a significant commitment to the grant's specific subject area. Authorizes annual appropriations within the limits of specified overall authorizations of appropriations. Repeals provisions requiring the Secretary: (1) to perform a regional food and nutrition center research study; (2) to conduct a weather and water allocation study; (3) to conduct an organic farming study; and (4) to conduct an agricultural research facilities study. Repeals the mandate for the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop a research and information management system. Authorizes FY 1986 through 1989 appropriations for: (1) agricultural research programs; and (2) extension education. Increases administrative cost appropriations from three percent to five percent. Authorizes the Secretary to use a cooperative agreement as the legal instrument reflecting a relationship between the Department of Agriculture and States, private, or Federal organizations when the Secretary determines that the agreement will serve mutual interests and all parties will contribute resources. Repeals provisions authorizing: (1) the Aquaculture Advisory Board; (2) the Rangeland Research Advisory Board; (3) the dairy goat research program; and (4) the Soybean Research Advisory Institute. Authorizes annual appropriations within the limits of specified overall authorizations of appropriations. Includes the acquisition and improvement of agricultural libraries within the scope of land-grant college research facilities grants. Extends grant authority through FY 1987 subject to the limits of specified overall authorizations of appropriations. Amends the Smith-Lever Act to authorize the transfer of specified appropriated funds. Title XV: Resource Conservation - Makes persons who cultivate crops on highly erodible land ineligible for price supports, crop insurance, and other specified agricultural loans. Provides exceptions for: (1) crops produced using approved conservation methods; and (2) certain previously cultivated land through FY 1985. Title XVI: Agricultural Credit - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to increase from one percent to one and one-eighth percent the maximum additional interest charge on farm ownership or operating loans. Modifies the Secretary's authority to sell notes on a nonrecourse basis from the Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund and the Rural Development Insurance Fund. Provides that with regard to emergency loan interest rates for post-FY 1985 disasters that such rates shall be: (1) based on the Government's borrowing cost with an additional cost of up to one and one-eighth percent for those persons unable to secure sufficient credit elsewhere; and (2) set at prevailing market rates for those persons able to secure credit elsewhere. Provides that for post-FY 1985 disasters, emergency loans will not be available to those producers to whom Federal crop insurance was available at the time of the disaster. Prohibits the Secretary from making insured farm ownership, operating, or disaster emergency loans after FY 1985. (Permits such loans to be guaranteed.) Provides an exception through FY 1990 for existing operating loan borrowers. Limits loan guarantees to 75 percent, with the Secretary having discretion to increase such limit to 90 percent. Title XVII: Miscellaneous - Amends the Agriculture Act of 1977 to make the existing annual farm report a biannual report. Amends the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 to extend the authority of the Secretary to collect user fees to all Department of Agriculture publications, including software. Provides for a permanent Commodity Credit Corporation reimbursement appropriation.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1985
Sulfite Safety Act of 1985 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prohibit the use of sulfiting agents in raw fruits and vegetables. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to reevaluate and report to the Congress on the use of such agents in other foods, including wine, dried fruit, and seafood.
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1985
Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to authorize federally insured credit unions to redeem food stamp coupons.
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1985
Proclaims March 20, 1985, as National Agriculture Day.
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1985
Agricultural Productivity Act of 1985 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) make an inventory of existing research and extension materials and recommend further areas of research regarding crop rotation, intercropping, biological pest control, and other related farming and soil conservation systems; and (2) make such information available to the public. Directs the Secretary to conduct research on 24 pilot farms (having specified mixes of livestock and crops) to examine the effects of the transition from practices relying on chemical fertilizers and pesticides and traditional soil tillage to systems relying on organic and biological pest control, crop rotation, and conservation tillage. Requires such farms to be chosen within 120 days. Directs the Secretary to make a parallel study of 12 farms which have been using such farm systems for at least five years. Sets the term of such projects at five years each. Sets forth on-farm study data, including soil profile changes, crop yields, energy and water use, and farm income. Directs the Secretary to make payments to the owner of a pilot farm if the Secretary determines such payments are justified. Stipulates that these payments may be made only during a project's last four years. Directs the Secretary to coordinate such pilot farms project with specified Federal and State agricultural services, colleges, and farmers. Directs the Secretary to report to the appropriate congressional committees: (1) within 15 months regarding the information inventory; and (2) by April 1 of each year regarding the pilot farms, with a final project summary and recommendations by April 1 of the year following completion. Provides for a five-year program of intercropping assistance under the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1985
States that the President should declare an economic emergency in rural America and should provide for loan moratoriums, loan restructuring, interest buy-downs, deferments, and additional operating and emergency loans.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1985
Highly Erodible Land Conservation Act of 1985 - Makes persons who cultivate crops on highly erodible land ineligible for price supports, crop insurance, and other specified agricultural loans. Provides exceptions for: (1) crops produced using approved conservation methods; and (2) certain previously cultivated land. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) use the agricultural stabilization and conservation committees to help administer this Act; and (2) complete specified soil capability surveys.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1985
Tobacco Deregulation Act of 1985 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to repeal tobacco price support provisions. Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to repeal tobacco acreage allotment and marketing quota provisions. Amends the Food and Agriculture Act of 1965 to repeal tobacco allotment transfer provisions. Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (P.L. 480) to exclude tobacco from specified concessional export provisions. Amends the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to prohibit the Commodity Credit Corporation from assisting tobacco production. Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as reenacted with amendments by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, to prohibit the issuance of tobacco marketing orders. Repeals the Tobacco Control Act. Withdraws congressional consent from any interstate compact regulating tobacco production and commerce.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1985
Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to provide additional farm service building loans.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1985
Authorizes expenditures by the House Committee on Agriculture for the first session of the 99th Congress, including the procurement of consultant services and assistance for specialized training for its professional staff.
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1985
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the administration should perform specified actions with regard to emergency agricultural credit.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1985
Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1985 - Title I: Agricultural Trade and Export Expansion - States that it is U.S. policy to: (1) promote free trade in agriculture by negotiating with key U.S. trading partners to remove agricultural trade restrictions; and (2) remove U.S. import restrictions as part of a program of mutual opening of markets. Amends the Trade Act of 1974, as amended, to require the U.S. Trade Representative to submit a separate compilation of the analysis and estimate of U.S. agricultural exports to the appropriate congressional committees. Directs the U.S. Trade Representative and the Secretary of Agriculture (the Secretary) to seek to eliminate barriers to U.S. agricultural products. Requires a report to the Congress if negotiations are not proceeding satisfactorily. Directs the President to recommend to the Congress a plan for the reciprocal phasing out of agricultural trade barriers. Directs the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC), in making export credit guarantees, to consider a country's credit standing, and whether such guarantees will foster U.S. agricultural exports. Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (Public Law 480) to extend sales and assistance program authority through FY 2000. Directs the Secretary to conduct an agricultural export study and report to the Congress within one year. Title II: Wheat - Directs the Secretary to make loans to producers of the 1986 and subsequent wheat crops who pledge their crops as loan security. Sets the basic loan rate for each class of wheat at 75 percent of the preceding three years' national average market price. Requires loan repayment within nine months. Directs the Secretary to make payments for each class of wheat based on the payment rate, planted acreage, and the farm's payment yield. Directs the Secretary to establish an acreage reduction program for the 1986 through 1988 wheat crops. Requires planted acreage for such years to be reduced by 15 percent, ten percent, and five percent, respectively. Makes a producer in excess of the permitted acreage ineligible for loans and payments. Permits the Secretary to adjust farm acreage bases. Requires that a portion of such acreage be devoted to conservation uses. Title III: Feed Grains - Directs the Secretary to make loans to producers of each of the 1986 and subsequent crops of corn, grain sorghum, and barley who pledge their crops as loan security. Sets the basic loan rate for each crop at 75 percent of the preceding three years' national average market price. Requires loan repayment within nine months. Directs the Secretary to make payments for each crop based on the payment rate, planted acreage, and the farm's payment yield. Directs the Secretary to establish an acreage reduction program for the 1986 through 1988 crops. Requires planted acreage for such years to be reduced by 15 percent, ten percent, and five percent, respectively. Permits the Secretary to adjust farm acreage bases. Requires that a portion of such acreage be devoted to conservation uses. Title IV: Cotton - Directs the Secretary to make loans to producers of each of the 1986 and subsequent crops of upland cotton and extra long staple cotton who pledge their crops as loan security. Sets the basic loan rate for each crop at 75 percent of the preceding three years' national average market price. Requires loan repayment within nine months. Directs the Secretary to make payments for each crop based on the payment rate, planted acreage, and the farm's payment yield. Directs the Secretary to establish an acreage reduction program for the 1986 through 1988 crops. Requires planted acreage for such years to be reduced by 15 percent, ten percent, and five percent, respectively. Permits the Secretary to adjust farm acreage bases. Requires that a portion of such acreage be devoted to conservation uses. Title V: Rice - Directs the Secretary to make loans to producers of each of the 1986 and subsequent crops of rice who pledge their crops as loan security. Sets the basic loan rate for each crop at 75 percent of the preceding three years' national average market price. Requires loan repayment within nine months. Directs the Secretary to establish an acreage reduction program for the 1986 through 1988 crops. Requires planted acreage for such years to be reduced by 15 percent, ten percent, and five percent, respectively. Makes a person who produces in excess of the permitted acreage ineligible for loans and payments. Permits the Secretary to adjust farm acreage bases. Requires that a portion of such acreage be devoted to conservation uses. Title VI: Soybeans - Directs the Secretary to make loans to producers of each of the 1986 and subsequent soybean crops who pledge their crops as loan security. Sets the basic loan rate for each crop at 75 percent of the preceding three years' national average market price. Requires loan repayment within nine months. Title VII: Dairy - Sets the dairy price support level through FY 1987 at $11.60 per hundredweight. Provides for two specified 50-cent per hundredweight price support reductions if purchases exceed specified amounts. Directs the Secretary to make milk payments for each of the fiscal years after FY 1987 based upon the payment rate and quantity of milk or milk products marketed in such fiscal year. Sets forth payment rate schedules for each of FY 1988 through 1991 and subsequent fiscal years. Directs the Secretary to appoint a ten-member task force to: (1) study the milk marketing order program; and (2) prepare a report by September 30, 1990. Extends through December 31, 1989, the authority for seasonal adjustment plans in milk marketing orders. Title VIII: Peanuts - Directs the Secretary to make loans to producers of each of the 1986 and subsequent peanut crops who pledge their crops as loan security. Sets the basic loan rate for each crop at the smaller of: (1) 75 percent of the preceding three years' national average market price; (2) $250 per ton. Requires loan repayment within nine months. Directs the Secretary to make payments for each of the 1986 and subsequent peanut crops based upon the quantity of eligible peanuts and the payment rate. Sets forth quantity eligible formulas for the 1986 through 1990 crops, and for the 1991 and subsequent crops. Sets the 1986 payment rate at the amount by which the national average market price is less than $550 per ton. Sets the 1987 and subsequent payment rates as the amount by which the year's market price is less than the three preceding years' national average market price multiplied by: (1) 95 percent for 1987; (2) 90 percent for 1988; (3) 85 percent for 1989; (4) 80 percent for 1990; and (5) 75 percent for 1991 and each subsequent year. Provides, with regard to 1986 through 1990 payment quota transfers that: (1) if a farm is transferred to a new owner the quota shall remain with the farm; (2) a quota may be permanently transferred upon death, by gift, or to a family member's farm; and (3) a temporary quota transfer may be made if both owner and operator agree in writing and such transfer is to such operator's farm. Title IX: Sugar - Directs the Secretary to make loans to producers of the 1986 and subsequent sugar cane and sugar beet crops. Sets the basic loan rate at 75 percent of the preceding three years' national average market price (raw value). Limits the sugar cane rate to no more than 12 cents per pound. Authorizes the Secretary to determine parallel sugar beet loan rates. Directs the Secretary to take steps to avoid accumulating excess CCC sugar stocks. Directs the Secretary to make payments for each of the 1986 and subsequent sugar cane and sugar beet crops based upon payment rate and quantity. Sets the 1986 through 1990 payment rates for sugar cane as the amount by which the year's market price is less than the greater of 75 percent of the preceding three years' market price, or: (1) 18 cents per pound for 1986; (2) 16 cents per pound for 1987; (3) 14 cents per pound for 1988; and (4) 12 cents per pound for 1989 and 1990. Sets the payment rates for sugar beets as the amount by which the national average market price is less than: (1) for each of the 1986 through 1990 crops, an amount determined by the Secretary in relation to the sugar cane rate; and (2) for each of the 1991 and subsequent crops, 75 percent of the preceding three years' national average market price. Title X: Wool and Mohair - Directs the Secretary to make loans to producers of wool and mohair for each of the 1986 and subsequent crops. Sets the 1986 and subsequent payment rates for mohair and wool at the amount by which the year's market price is less than the smaller of $5.17 per pound or the three preceding years' national average market price multiplied by: (1) 100 percent for 1986; (2) 95 percent for 1987; (3) 90 percent for 1988; (4) 85 percent for 1989; (5) 80 percent for 1990; and (6) 75 percent for 1991 and subsequent years. Title XI: Food Assistance Reserve - Authorizes the Secretary to establish a wheat and feed grain food assistance reserve. Title XII: General Provisions - Places specified program limits on amounts that a person may receive under this Act. Permits a person applying for specified commodity loans under this Act to designate such a loan as a nonrecourse loan. Limits such total amounts to $200,000. Provides that: (1) the borrower shall not be personally liable for any deficiency arising from the sale of collateral securing such a loan unless the loan was fraudulently obtained; and (2) the payment rate shall be the lesser of the otherwise applicable payment rate or the amount by which the national average market price for the collateral-commodity is less than the loan rate for the collateral. Directs the Secretary to ascertain the acreage of any commodity or land use on a farm in order to determine program compliance under this Act. Permits remeasurement upon farm operator request. Provides that when the ownership of a tract of land is transferred from a parent farm, any payment quota, history acreage and base acreage for the farm shall be divided between such tract and the parent farm in the same proportion as the tract cropland acreage bears to the parent farm cropland acreage. Permits the Secretary to provide alternative apportionment in certain situations. Permits the Secretary to make advance commodity payments. Title XIII: Repeal of Prior Legislation - Repeals specified provisions of: (1) the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938; (2) the Agricultural Act of 1949; (3) the Agricultural Act of 1948; (4) the Food and Agriculture Act of 1965; (5) the Food and Agriculture Act of 1962; (6) the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981; (7) the Agricultural Act of 1970; (8) the Food Security Wheat Reserve Act of 1980; (9) the Agricultural Trade Suspension Adjustment Act of 1980; (10) the National Wool Act; (11) the Agricultural Marketing Act; and (12) other specified Federal laws. Title XIV: National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act Amendments of 1985 - National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act Amendments of 1985 - Amends the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 to repeal the provision requiring the Secretary, in cooperation with other appropriate agencies, to develop a long-term assessment for food, fiber, and forest products. Extends through FY 1989 the term of: (1) the Joint Council on Food and Agricultural Sciences; and (2) the National Agricultural Research and Extension Users Advisory Board. Increases such Board's membership and eliminates specified reporting requirements. Eliminates specified needs assessment information from the Secretary's annual agricultural extension, research, and teaching report. Amends Federal law to establish a program of competitive research grants, with emphasis in areas of high priority research, including new techniques, biotechnology, human nutrition, soil and water research, and industrial use of agricultural products. Authorizes annual appropriations. Amends the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 to increase administrative cost appropriations from four percent to five percent. Amends the Research Facilities Act to authorize grants on a matching basis. Permits such funds to be used to finance research equipment. Increases administrative cost appropriations from three percent to five percent. Authorizes annual appropriations within the limits of specified overall authorizations of appropriations. Revises the definition of "State" to include the District of Columbia, Guam, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and Micronesia. Revises the definition of "eligible institution" to include forestry or veterinary departments. Eliminates the requirement that food and agricultural sciences education grants be made without regard to recipient-provided matching grants. Requires a recipient institution to have a significant commitment to the grant's specific subject area. Authorizes annual appropriations within the limits of specified overall authorizations of appropriations. Repeals provisions requiring the Secretary: (1) to perform a regional food and nutrition center research study; (2) to conduct a weather and water allocation study; (3) to conduct an organic farming study; and (4) to conduct an agricultural research facilities study. Repeals the mandate for the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop a research and information management system. Authorizes FY 1986 through 1989 appropriations for: (1) agricultural research programs; and (2) extension education. Increases administrative cost appropriations from three percent to five percent. Authorizes the Secretary to use a cooperative agreement as the legal instrument reflecting a relationship between the Department of Agriculture and State, private, or Federal organizations when the Secretary determines that the agreement will serve mutual interests and all parties will contribute resources. Repeals provisions authorizing: (1) the Aquaculture Advisory Board; (2) the Rangeland Research Advisory Board; (3) the dairy goat research program; and (4) the Soybean Research Advisory Institute. Authorizes annual appropriations within the limits of specified overall authorizations of appropriations. Includes the acquisition and improvement of agricultural libraries within the scope of land-grant college research facilities grants. Extends grant authority through FY 1987 subject to the limits of specified overall authorizations of appropriations. Amends the Smith-Lever Act to authorize the transfer of specified appropriated funds. Title XV: Resource Conservation - Makes persons who cultivate crops on highly erodible land ineligible for price supports, crop insurance, and other specified agricultural loans. Provides exceptions for: (1) crops produced using approved conservation methods; and (2) certain previously cultivated land through FY 1985. Title XVI: Agricultural Credit - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to increase from one percent to one and one-eighth percent the maximum additional interest charge on farm ownership or operating loans. Sets forth clarifying language regarding the Secretary's authority to sell notes on nonrecourse basis from the Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund and the Rural Development Insurance Fund. Provides, with regard to emergency loan interest rates for post-FY 1985 disasters, that such a rate shall be: (1) based on the Government's borrowing cost with an additional cost of up to one and one-eighth percent for those persons unable to secure sufficient credit elsewhere; and (2) set at prevailing market rates for those persons able to secure credit elsewhere. Provides that for post-FY 1985 disasters, emergency loans will not be available to those producers to whom Federal crop insurance was available at the time of the disaster. Prohibits the Secretary from making insured farm ownership, operating, or disaster emergency loans after FY 1985. (Permits such loans to be guaranteed.) Provides an exception through FY 1990 for existing operating loan borrowers. Limits loan guarantees to 75 percent, with the Secretary having discretion to increase such limit to 90 percent. Title XVII: Miscellaneous - Amends the Agriculture Act of 1977 to make the existing annual farm report a biannual report. Amends the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 to extend the authority of the Secretary to collect user fees to all Department of Agriculture publications, including software. Provides for a permanent Commodity Credit Corporation reimbursement appropriation.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1985
Quality Grain Standards Act - Amends the United States Grain Standards Act to prohibit the owner or operator of an export elevator at an export port location from knowingly adding or mixing grain dust or any nongrain related material to grain shipped from such elevator. Permits fumigation of grain.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1985
Emergency Agricultural Credit Appropriations Act - Appropriates additional funds to: (1) the Farmers Home Administration for farm loan foreclosure deferral for specified procedures and salaries and expenses of personnel to review farm loans for loan and foreclosure deferral purposes; and (2) the Economic Research Service of the Department of Agriculture to delivery of U.S. agricultural commodities. Directs the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to use existing loan guarantee authority to restructure agricultural producer loans.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1985
Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to exclude from a household's financial resources certain funds set aside for burial expenses of elderly and disabled members and their spouses.
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1985
Amends the Saccharin Study and Labeling Act to extend to May 1, 1988, the period during which the Secretary of Health and Human Services may not take certain actions to restrict the continued use of saccharin or of any food, drug, or cosmetic containing saccharin.
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1985
Agricultural Loan Guarantee and Debt Restructuring Act - Title I: Agricultural Loan Guarantees - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to provide agricultural lenders with a 90 percent Federal guarantee in exchange for restructuring outstanding agricultural loans through FY 1992. Sets the Farmers Home Administration loan cash flow requirement at 100 percent. Requires annual loan reviews. Gives priority to borrowers with a positive cash flow who are unable to obtain financing elsewhere and who had loans with failed lenders. Makes borrowers eligible for debt set-asides if they can show that such a deferral will result in a positive cash flow providing 100 percent of the amount needed to repay indebtedness. Authorizes additional appropriations for guarantees. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to ensure that: (1) personnel and resources are made available to process loan applications; and (2) "approved lender" applications are reviewed within 15 days. Title II: Non-Physical Disaster Loans Relating to the Payment-in-kind Program - Amends the Small Business Act to make certain small businesses (including specified agricultural cooperatives) which have suffered operations losses due to the payment-in-kind program eligible for non-physical disaster loans. Increases authorizations of appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1985
Emergency Agricultural Credit Act of 1985 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to make advance price support recourse loans available for 1985 for producers participating in the 1985 farm program. Makes up to 50 percent of such crop eligible for advance payments. Permits loan conversion to nonrecourse status upon harvest and availability as loan collateral. Administers such program through the Commodity Credit Corporation and the local farmer committees.
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1985
Emergency Agricultural Credit Appropriations Act - Appropriates additional funds to: (1) the Farmers Home Administration for farm loan foreclosure deferral and salaries and expenses of personnel to review farm loans for loan and foreclosure deferral purposes; and (2) the Economic Research Service of the Department of Agriculture to determine damages caused by embargoes on the sale and delivery of U.S. agricultural commodities. Directs the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to use existing loan guarantee authority to restructure agricultural producer loans.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1985
Farm Credit Administration Improvement Act of 1985 - Amends the Farm Credit Act of 1971 to authorize the Farm Credit Administration (FCA) to issue cease and desist orders against any Farm Credit System institution or director, officer, employee, or agent engaged in an unsafe or unsound practice or in violation of any FCA rule or regulation. Provides for written notice and hearing opportunity. Authorizes FCA to issue temporary cease and desist orders. Permits U.S. district court appeal. Permits FCA appeal to such court for injunctive enforcement. Authorizes FCA to remove or suspend any Farm Credit System director or officer who has engaged in unsafe or prohibited practices, is in breach of fiduciary duty, or has been indicted for a felony involving dishonesty or breach of trust. Provides for written notice and hearing opportunity. Establishes procedures for administrative hearings and judicial review. Authorizes the FCA to apply to any U.S. district court with jurisdiction for the enforcement of any outstanding notice or order. Provides for civil penalties of up to $1,000 for violations of final orders or of the provisions of the Farm Credit Act of 1971 or regulations. Makes directors and officers who knowingly violate, or permit others to violate, such Act or regulations personally liable for damages. Amends the Farm Credit Act of 1971 to authorize the Governor of FCA to require the merger of two or more Farm Credit System institutions when: (1) such institutions are insolvent or not financially viable; or (2) such merger would provide borrowers with better service.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1985
1985 Emergency Farm Credit Relief Act - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to make advance (recourse) price support loans available to producers participating in the 1985 wheat and feed grain programs. Makes up to 50 percent of such anticipated crop eligible for advance payments. Sets advance wheat loan rates at between $3.80 and $3.00 per bushel based on production levels. Sets advance corn loan rates at between $2.60 and $2.00 per bushel based on production levels. Permits loan conversion to nonrecourse status after harvest. Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to provide agricultural lenders with a 90 percent Federal guarantee in exchange for interest rates of not more than two and one half percent above the Federal Reserve discount rate. Sets the Farmers Home Administration loan cash flow requirement at 100 percent. Makes borrowers eligible for debt set-asides if they can show that such deferral will result in a positive cash flow providing 100 percent of the amount needed to repay indebtedness. Authorizes additional appropriations for FY 1985 guarantees.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1985
Farm Emergency Credit Act of 1985 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to make advance (recourse) price support loans available for 1985 for producers participating in the 1985 farm program. Makes up to 50 percent of such crop eligible for advance payments. Permits loan conversion to nonrecourse status upon harvest and availability as loan collateral. Administers such program through the Commodity Credit Corporation and the local farmer committees. Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to provide agricultural lenders with a 90 percent Federal guarantee in exchange for interest rates of not more than two and one-half percent above the Federal Reserve discount rate. Sets the Farmers Home Administration (FmHA) loan cash flow requirement at 100 percent. Authorizes FY 1985 appropriations for farm ownership and operating loan guarantees. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Secretary should take immediate steps to make personnel and other resources available to facilitate the administration of such program. Requires the FmHA to approve or reject "approved lender" applications within 15 days.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1985
Emergency Farm Operating Credit Assistance Act of 1985 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to make advance price support recourse loans available for 1985 for producers participating in the 1985 farm program. Makes up to 50 percent of such crop eligible for advance payments. Permits loan conversion to nonrecourse status upon harvest and availability as loan collateral. Directs the Secretary to administer such program through the Commodity Credit Corporation and the local farmer committees.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1985
Emergency Farm Credit Assistance Act of 1985 - Title I: Emergency Farm Credit Assistance - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to authorize additional FY 1985 loan guarantee authority. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to release liens on loan-securing assets of up to $10,000 to assist certain borrowers facing foreclosure in the transition out of farming and ranching. Requires a borrower to convey the remaining property or the proceeds of its sale to the Government. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants through FY 1986 to States for interest rate reductions (for at least three years) on loans made by commercial or cooperative lenders. Requires the Secretary to make such grants without a State matching requirement whenever it would not be practicable for a State to provide such matching funds. Provides for interest recapture upon sale or title transfer. Permits lenders to qualify for loan guarantees without principal or interest reductions. Provides for 90 percent guarantees. Sets the Farmers Home Administration loan and set-aside cash flow requirement at 100 percent. Provides reduced interest rates for farm ownership and operating loans through FY 1986. Directs the Secretary to ensure that: (1) personnel and other resources are made available to administer such assistance programs; and (2) "approved lender" applications are reviewed within 15 days. Title II: Task Force on Agricultural Credit - Agricultural Credit Task Force Act of 1985 - Establishes a National Task Force on Agricultural Credit to study and make recommendations regarding the problems confronting U.S. agricultural producers and related businesses. Requires a final report to the President and the Congress by September 1, 1985. Terminates the Task Force 60 days after submission of such report. Title III: Restraint in Adversely Classifying Agricultural Loans; Protection of Farm Credit System Borrower Capital - Directs Federal bank regulators to exercise restraint in adversely classifying agricultural loans. Requires a report to the Congress within 90 days. Directs the Farm Credit Administration to conduct a study of the need to establish a fund to protect Farm Credit System borrower capital. Requires a report to the appropriate committees within 180 days.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1985
Farm Emergency Credit Act of 1985 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to direct the Secretary of Agricultural to make advance (recourse) price support loans available for 1985 for producers participating in the 1985 farm program. Makes up to 50 percent of such crop eligible for advance payments. Permits loan conversion to nonrecourse status upon harvest and availability as loan collateral. Administers such program through the Commodity Credit Corporation and the local farmer committees. Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to provide agricultural lenders with a 90 percent Federal guarantee in exchange for interest rates of not more than two and one-half percent above the Federal Reserve discount rate. Sets the Farmers Home Administration (FmHA) loan cash flow requirement at 100 percent. Authorizes FY 1985 appropriations for farm ownership and operating loan guarantees. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Secretary should take immediate steps to make personnel and other resources available to facilitate the administration of such program. Requires the FmHA to approve or reject "approved lender" applications within 15 days.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1985
Emergency Farm Credit Act of 1985 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to make specified advance loans available for the 1985 crops of wheat, feed grains, soybeans, rice, and upland cotton. Limits amounts to any one producer to $50,000.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1985
Consolidated Agricultural Adjustment Loan Act of 1985 - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to consolidate ownership, operating, soil and water, limited resource, rural growth, recreation, and economic emergency agricultural loans into a single consolidated agricultural adjustment loan. Establishes aggregate insured and guaranteed loan limits at $500,000. Sets forth application and program provisions. Authorizes the Farmers Home Administration (FmHA) to make a separate home loan to a defaulting farmer whose loan was secured by such home. Sets a maximum repayment period of 25 years. States that borrowers shall not be required to provide more collateral than is necessary to secure a consolidated loan. Requires FmHA to hold foreclosed land in a five-year inventory, subject to redemption by the borrower.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1985
Declares that the President direct the Secretary of Agriculture to implement a modified debt recovery program to make structural changes in the agricultural loan programs designed to benefit family farmers.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1985
Farm Emergency Credit Act of 1985 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to direct the Secretary of Agricultural to make advance (recourse) price support loans available for 1985 for producers participating in the 1985 farm program. Makes up to 50 percent of such crop eligible for advance payments. Permits loan conversion to nonrecourse status upon harvest and availability as loan collateral. Administers such program through the Commodity Credit Corporation and the local farmer committees. Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to provide agricultural lenders with a 90 percent Federal guarantee in exchange for interest rates of not more than two and one-half percent above the Federal Reserve discount rate. Sets the Farmers Home Administration (FmHA) loan cash flow requirement at 100 percent. Authorizes FY 1985 appropriations for farm ownership and operating loan guarantees. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Secretary should take immediate steps to make personnel and other resources available to facilitate the administration of such program. Requires the FmHA to approve or reject "approved lender" applications within 15 days.