Emergency Farm Relief Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3855
Sponsor: Sen. Conrad, Kent [D-ND]
Introduced: 2006-09-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agricultural conservation
Agricultural cooperatives
Agricultural credit
Agricultural extension work
Agricultural industries
Agricultural subsidies
Alabama
Animal diseases
Animals
Anthrax
Cattle
Commerce
Compensation (Law)
Crop insurance
Dairy industry
Department of Agriculture
Disaster relief
Drainage
Droughts
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Environmental Protection
Farm lands
Farm produce
Finance and Financial Sector
Flood damage
Food relief
Forest fires
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Grazing
Habitat conservation
Hawaii
Health
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Indemnity
Lakes
Land use
Law
Livestock
Louisiana
Mississippi
North Dakota
Nutrition
Outdoor recreation
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Sheep
Small business
Soil conservation
Soil erosion
Sports and Recreation
Sugar
Texas
Tuberculosis
Water Resources Development
Watersheds

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: 
Emergency Farm Relief Act of 2006 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to provide financial assistance for: (1) crop disaster assistance for qualifying quantity or quality losses for the 2005 or 2006 crop due to weather or related conditions (including disease, insects, and delayed harvest; (2) livestock assistance for 2005 and 2006 disaster-caused losses; (3) livestock indemnity payments for 2005 and 2006 disaster-caused losses (including wildfires, hurricanes, floods, and anthrax); (4) ewe lamb replacement and retention; (5) sugar beet disaster assistance for crop year 2005; (6) sugarcane growers in Hawaii through a payment to an agricultural transportation cooperative in Hawaii; (7) flooded crop and grazing land in the Devils Lake basin, the McHugh, Lake Laretta, and Rose Lake closed drainage areas, North Dakota; and (8) bovine tuberculosis indemnification.
 
Directs the Secretary to provide financial assistance for: (1) state grants to promote agriculture; and (2) grants for value of production. Requires a recipient state to give priority for livestock and specialty crops.
 
Directs the Secretary to make supplemental economic loss payments to: (1) producers on a farm who received a crop year 2005 direct payment; and (2) dairy producers eligible to receive a 2005 national dairy market loss payment.
 
Directs the Secretary to make grants to state agriculture departments or comparable agencies in qualified states for direct economic loss payments to eligible small businesses.
 
Directs the Secretary to use specified funds to: (1) carry out emergency measures under the emergency watershed protection and emergency conservation programs; and (2) hire additional state and county Farm Service Agency personnel to expedite the delivery of agricultural disaster and economic assistance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10565)
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Introduced in Senate