A bill to amend the Agricultural Act of 2014 to improve the calculation of county-level agriculture risk coverage payments.

Summary

This bill amends the Agricultural Act of 2014 to require the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to use certain data to calculate payments for county coverage under the Agriculture Risk Coverage program (ARC). (ARC provides revenue loss coverage by issuing payments to farmers when the actual county crop revenue of a covered commodity is below a specified amount.) In the case of country coverage, USDA must calculate payments using county data of the National Agricultural Statistics Service. If this data is unavailable, USDA must use comparable county data, as determined by the applicable state office of the Farm Service Agency.

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Timeline

1. 10 May 2018

   Introduced

   Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

   Source: IntroReferral

2. 10 May 2018

   Introduced

   Introduced in Senate

   Source: IntroReferral

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Versions

• Introduced in Senate · 10 May 2018 · Official file

Documents

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• Introduced in Senate (text)

  Introduced in Senate · EN · 10 May 2018

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• Introduced in Senate (PDF)

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• Introduced in Senate

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Sponsors

• John Hoeven · R · Sponsor
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