Also eliminated are authorities for the Farmer Owned Reserve and the Emergency Livestock Feed Assistance Program. The program is established to help livestock producers improve environmental and water quality. The bill eliminates the mandatory nature of catastrophic crop insurance, but requires producers to waive all federal disaster assistance if they opt not to purchase insurance. Dual delivery of crop insurance is eliminated in those states that have adequate private crop insurance delivery. The bill also corrects a provision of current law by amending the Federal Crop Insurance Act to include seed crops.
Issues surrounding milk marketing orders and the dairy price support program remain unresolved.
Accordingly, the conference report contains no provisions on dairy at this point. You can be assured that reform of both the Federal milk marketing order program and the dairy price support program will be high on our agenda following the Thanksgiving recess.