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

Bill: 115-s-2833
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Hoeven, John [R-ND]
Introduced: 2018-05-10
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Latest action: action_date: 2018-05-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

Summaries:
action_date: 2018-05-10
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>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.) </p> <p>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. </p>

tv_txt: II 115th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 2833 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES May 10, 2018 Mr. Hoeven introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry A BILL To amend the Agricultural Act of 2014 to improve the calculation of county-level agriculture risk coverage payments.

1. Agriculture risk coverage Section 1117(e) of the Agricultural Act of 2014 ( 7 U.S.C. 9017(e) ) is amended— (1) by redesignating paragraphs (1) and (2) as subparagraphs (A) and (B), respectively, and indenting appropriately; (2) by striking If agriculture and inserting the following: (1) In general If agriculture ; and (3) by adding at the end the following: (2) Calculation for county coverage In the case of county coverage, the agriculture risk coverage payment shall be calculated— (A) using county data of the National Agricultural Statistics Service; or (B) if the data described in subparagraph (A) is unavailable, using county data comparable to the data described in subparagraph (A), as determined by the applicable State office of the Farm Service Agency. .