Fair CRP Payments Act

Bill: 115-hr-3649
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Noem, Kristi L. [R-SD-At Large]
Introduced: 2017-08-11
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural conservation and pollution

Farmland

Government studies and investigations
Latest action: action_date: 2017-09-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-08-11
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Fair CRP Payments Act </b></p> <p>This bill amends the Food Security Act of 1985, with respect to the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), to require the Department of Agriculture to conduct surveys of rental rates on an annual basis, instead of the existing requirement to conduct the surveys at least once every other year. </p> <p>(The surveys are a factor used to determine CRP rental payments and include per acre estimates of county average market dryland and irrigated cash rental rates for cropland and pastureland in all counties or equivalent subdivisions within each state that have 20,000 acres or more of cropland and pastureland.) </p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3649 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES August 11, 2017 Mrs. Noem introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture A BILL To amend the Food Security Act of 1985 with respect to annual estimates under the conservation reserve program.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Fair CRP Payments Act . 2. Annual estimates Section 1234(d)(5)(A) of the Food Security Act of 1985 ( 16 U.S.C. 3834(d)(5)(A) ) is amended by striking every other year and inserting every year .