To amend the Agricultural Act of 2014 to provide a limited exception to the prohibition on price loss coverage payments or agriculture risk coverage payments when the sum of the base acres on a farm is 10 acres or less.

Bill: 115-hr-5405
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Rouzer, David [R-NC-7]
Introduced: 2018-03-22
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative remedies

Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Latest action: action_date: 2018-04-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.

Summaries:
action_date: 2018-03-22
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This bill amends the Agricultural Act of 2014 to provide an exception to the rule that prohibits the Department of Agriculture from providing price loss coverage payments or agriculture risk coverage payments to a producer on a farm if the sum of the base acres on the farm is 10 acres or less. The exception applies if the sum of the base acres on the farm, when combined with the base acres of other farms in which the producer has an interest, is more than 10 acres.</p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 5405 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 22, 2018 Mr. Rouzer introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture A BILL To amend the Agricultural Act of 2014 to provide a limited exception to the prohibition on price loss coverage payments or agriculture risk coverage payments when the sum of the base acres on a farm is 10 acres or less.

1. Exception to prohibition on price loss coverage payments or agriculture risk coverage payments for certain farms with minimal payment acres Section 1114(d)(1) of the Agricultural Act of 2014 ( 7 U.S.C. 9014(d)(1) ) is amended by adding before the period at the end the following: , unless the sum of the base acres on the farm, when combined with the base acres of other farms in which the producer has an interest, is more than 10 acres .