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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 5551 
To amend the Agricultural Act of 2014 to require a one-time update of 
base acres for covered commodities to ensure base acres reflect recent 
planting history, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 23, 2025 
Mr. JOHNSON of South Dakota (for himself and Ms. BUDZINSKI) introduced 
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture 
A BILL 
To amend the Agricultural Act of 2014 to require a one- 
time update of base acres for covered commodities to 
ensure base acres reflect recent planting history, and 
for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Balanced Agricultural 
Support and Efficiency Act’’. 
SEC. 2. MANDATORY BASE ACRES. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—Section 1111 of the Agricultural 
Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 9011) is amended— 
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(1) by striking paragraph (4) and inserting the 
following: 
‘‘(4) BASE ACRES.—The term ‘base acres’, with 
respect to a covered commodity on a farm, means 
the number of acres determined for a farm under 
section 1112.’’; 
(2) by striking paragraph (10); and 
(3) by redesignating paragraphs (11) through 
(26) as paragraphs (10) through (25), respectively. 
(b) BASE ACRES.—Section 1112 of the Agricultural 
Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 9012) is amended— 
(1) by striking subsection (a) and inserting the 
following: 
‘‘(a) MANDATORY ONE-TIME UPDATE
OF BASE 
ACRES.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—As soon as practicable 
after the date of enactment of the Balanced Agricul-
tural Support and Efficiency Act, the Secretary shall 
update the base acres on a farm, as in effect under 
this title on the day before the date of enactment of 
that Act, for the 2025 crop year in accordance with 
this section. 
‘‘(2) MANDATORY UPDATE.—For the purpose of 
applying this title to covered commodities, the Sec-
retary shall determine the base acres on a farm by 
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purposes for the 2020 through 2024 crop 
years; and 
‘‘(ii) any acreage on the farm that the 
producers were prevented from planting 
during the 2020 through 2024 crop years 
to covered commodities because of drought, 
flood, or other natural disaster, or other 
condition beyond the control of the pro-
ducers, as determined by the Secretary. 
‘‘(4) INCLUSION
OF
ALL
YEARS
IN
AVER-
AGE.—For the purpose of determining a 5-year acre-
age average under paragraph (3) for a farm, the 
Secretary shall not exclude any crop year in which 
a covered commodity was not planted. 
‘‘(5) TREATMENT OF MULTIPLE PLANTING OR 
PREVENTED PLANTING.—For the purpose of deter-
mining under paragraph (3) the acreage on a farm 
that producers planted or were prevented from 
planting during the 2020 through 2024 crop years 
to covered commodities, if the acreage that was 
planted or prevented from being planted was devoted 
to another covered commodity in the same crop year 
(other than a covered commodity produced under an 
established practice of double cropping), the owner— 
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‘‘(A) may elect the commodity to be used 
for that crop year in determining the 5-year av-
erage; but 
‘‘(B) may not include both the initial com-
modity and the subsequent commodity.’’; 
(2) in subsection (b)(1), in the matter pre-
ceding subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘Notwith-
standing the election’’ and all that follows through 
‘‘circumstances occur:’’ and inserting the following: 
‘‘Notwithstanding subsection (a), the Secretary shall 
provide for an adjustment, as appropriate, in the 
base acres for covered commodities for a farm when-
ever any of the following circumstances occur:’’; 
(3) in subsection (c)— 
(A) in paragraph (1)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘the election made 
under’’; 
(ii) by striking ‘‘, including generic 
base acres’’ each place it appears; and 
(iii) by striking ‘‘or generic base 
acres’’; and 
(B) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘or ge-
neric base acres’’; and 
(4) in subsection (d)— 
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(A) in paragraph (1)(A), by striking ‘‘or 
generic base acres’’; and 
(B) in paragraph (2)(A), in the matter 
preceding clause (i), by striking ‘‘, including 
any generic base acres,’’. 
(c) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.— 
(1) PAYMENT YIELDS.—Section 1113(c)(1) of 
the Agricultural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 9013(c)(l)) 
is amended by striking ‘‘established or that is plant-
ed on generic base acres,’’ and inserting ‘‘estab-
lished,’’. 
(2) PAYMENT ACRES.—Section 1114 of the Ag-
ricultural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 9014) is amend-
ed— 
(A) in subsection (a)— 
(i) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘sub-
section (e)’’ and inserting ‘‘subsection (d)’’; 
and 
(ii) in paragraph (2), by striking 
‘‘subsection (e)’’ and inserting ‘‘subsection 
(d)’’; 
(B) by striking subsections (b) and (f); 
and 
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(C) by redesignating subsections (c), (d), 
and (e) as subsections (b), (c), and (d), respec-
tively. 
(3) PRICE LOSS COVERAGE.—Section 1116(g) 
of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 9016(g)) 
is amended, in the matter preceding paragraph (1), 
by striking ‘‘(19)’’ and inserting ‘‘(18)’’. 
Æ 
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