CRP Grazing Flexibility Act

Bill: 115-hr-4298
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Hartzler, Vicky [R-MO-4]
Introduced: 2017-11-08
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural conservation and pollution

Agricultural practices and innovations

Farmland

Livestock
Latest action: action_date: 2017-12-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-11-08
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>CRP Grazing Flexibility Act </b></p> <p>This bill amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to allow grazing to be used as a mid-contract management practice under the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) without any reduction in the rental rate if the grazing is consistent with the conservation of soil, water, and wildlife habitat. The Department of Agriculture may not make cost sharing payments for grazing undertaken pursuant to this bill. </p> <p>(CRP provides payments to farmers who agree to remove environmentally sensitive land from agricultural production and plant species that will improve environmental health and quality. Farmers with certain CRP contracts are required to apply authorized mid-contract management practices to CRP land to implement the conservation plan.) </p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 4298 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES November 8, 2017 Mrs. Hartzler introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture A BILL To amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to allow grazing as a mid-contract management practice in the conservation reserve program, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the CRP Grazing Flexibility Act . 2. Grazing as mid-contract management (a) Specified activities permitted Section 1233(b) of the Food Security Act of 1985 ( 16 U.S.C. 3833(b) ) is amended— (1) in paragraph (4), by striking ; and and inserting a semicolon; (2) in paragraph (5), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and ; and (3) by adding at the end the following: (6) grazing pursuant to section 1232(a)(5) without any reduction in the rental rate, if the grazing is consistent with the conservation of soil, water quality, and wildlife habitat. . (b) Cost sharing payments Section 1234(b) of the Food Security Act of 1985 ( 16 U.S.C. 3834(b) ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (6) Mid-contract management grazing The Secretary may not make any cost sharing payment to an owner or operator under this subchapter for any grazing undertaken pursuant to section 1232(a)(5). .