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Balancing Food, Farm, and the Environment Act of 2013 [HB-1890]
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Balancing Food, Farm, and the Environment Act of 2013 - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to make a producer violating certain conservation requirements under the highly erodible land or wetland programs ineligible for federal crop insurance premiums. Requires producers under the highly erodible land program and the wetland conservation program to comply with specified conservation requirements. Extends and revises: (1) the conservation reserve program, (2) the conservation stewardship program, and (3) the environmental quality incentives program.
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Dairy Freedom Act [HB-1741]
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Dairy Freedom Act - Amends the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to establish a dairy producer margin insurance program to protect dairy producer income by paying participating dairy producers margin insurance payments when actual dairy producer margins are less than such payments' threshold levels. Makes the program available to all U.S. dairy producers. Sets forth program provisions. Repeals: (1) the dairy product price support program, (2) the milk income loss contract program, and (3) the
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Beginning Farmer and Rancher Opportunity Act of 2013 [HB-1727]
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Beginning Farmer and Rancher Opportunity Act of 2013 - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to extend: (1) the conservation reserve and related programs, and (2) assistance to disadvantaged or beginning farmers or ranchers for access to the environmental quality incentives and the conservation stewardship programs. Permits conservation reserve contract modification to facilitate transfers from retiring owners to limited resource farmers or ranchers. Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to: (1) reduce the number of operating years
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To impose a limitation on the maximum amount of crop insurance premiums paid by the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, to repeal the authority to provide direct payments for producers of certain major agricultural commodities and peanuts, to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture from making payments to the Brazilian Cotton Institute, and for other purposes. [HB-1644]
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Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to prohibit the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC) from paying more than 70% of the premium for any coverage, policy, or plan of insurance. Amends the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to end agricultural direct payments. (Continues such payments through crop year 2013 for covered commodities and peanuts.) Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) from making payments, either directly or through the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC), to the Brazilian Cotton Institute.
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Farm Risk Abatement and Mitigation Election Act of 2013 [HB-1614]
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Farm Risk Abatement and Mitigation Election Act of 2013 or the FRAME Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) establish tax-exempt farm risk management accounts (FRAME Accounts) and allow taxpayers actively engaged in the business of farming or ranching to use distributions from such accounts to protect the solvency of the farm to which the FRAME Account relates and to procure revenue or crop insurance; (2) allow a deduction from gross income for cash contributions to such accounts; (3) specify minimum levels of contributions to, and
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Farming Flexibility Act of 2013 [HB-1610]
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Farming Flexibility Act of 2013 - Amends the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to consider mung beans and pulse crops as covered commodities whose planting on base acres is prohibited unless the commodity, if planted, is destroyed before harvest. Provides that: (1) as of crop year 2014 producers on a farm may reduce the base acres for any covered commodity for a crop year by one acre for each acre used for the production of fruits or vegetables (other than potatoes) for processing; (2) such acres devoted to fruits or vegetables shall be
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Shellfish Marketing Assistance Fairness Act [HB-1590]
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Shellfish Marketing Assistance Fairness Act - Amends the Specialty Crops Competitiveness Act of 2004 to include farmed shellfish as a specialty crop.
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New Fair Deal CEO's Act of 2013 [HB-1567]
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New Fair Deal Consolidating and Eliminating Outdated Subsidies Act of 2013 or New Fair Deal CEO's Act of 2013 - Amends the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 to repeal the sugar price support and production adjustment programs, and terminate sugar marketing quotas and allotments. Eliminates tariffs on: (1) raw sugar cane, (2) beet sugar, and (3) certain refined sugar. Repeals the Fish and Seafood Promotion Act of 1986. Amends federal shipping law to terminate the authority of the Secretary of Commerce or the Administrator of
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To amend the definition of State in certain Federal agricultural laws to include the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. [HB-1545]
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Amends the McIntire-Stennis Cooperative Forestry Act and the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to include within the definition of "state" the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
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To make supplemental agricultural disaster assistance available for fiscal years 2012 and 2013, and for other purposes. [HB-1454]
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Makes livestock indemnity payments (at 65% of an animal's market value) through FY2013 to eligible producers on farms that have incurred excess livestock death losses due to: (1) attacks by animals reintroduced into the wild by the federal government or protected by federal law, including wolves; or (2) adverse weather, including hurricanes, floods, blizzards, disease, wildfires, extreme heat, and extreme cold. Establishes a livestock forage disaster program to provide one source for livestock forage disaster assistance for weather-related forage
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Depleting Risk from Insect Infestation, Soil Erosion, and Catastrophic Fire Act [HB-1442]
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Depleting Risk from Insect Infestation, Soil Erosion, and Catastrophic Fire Act - Amends the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 to state findings concerning the threat to forests in the Western region of the United States posed by the mountain pine beetle. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) or the Secretary of the Interior, as appropriate, to designate as part of an insect and disease treatment and research pilot program at least one subwatershed in at least one national forest in each state that is experiencing an insect or disease
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Local Farms, Food, and Jobs Act of 2013 [HB-1414]
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Local Farms, Food, and Jobs Act of 2013 - Amends the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 regarding the supplemental food assistance program (SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program) to include as a retail store an agricultural producer marketing agricultural products directly to consumers. Requires participating retailers to pay 100% of the costs of acquiring, and arranging for the implementation of, electronic benefit transfer (EBT) point-of-sale equipment and supplies. Allows exemptions, including for farmers' markets, direct farmer-to-consumer
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Agricultural Credit Expansion Act [HB-1297]
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Agricultural Credit Expansion Act - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to expand eligibility for Farm Service Agency operating loans, farm ownership loans, conservation loans, and emergency loans. Deems specified embedded entities (an entity owned wholly or in part by another entity) eligible for farm ownership and operating loans. Deems specified operating-only entities eligible for farm ownership loans. Deems an entity that is an owner-operator or operator to meet the direct ownership loan requirement if it is owned in whole
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Maple Tapping Access Program Act [HB-1272]
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Maple Tapping Access Program Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to make grants to states, tribal governments, and research institutions to promote the domestic maple syrup industry through: (1) promotion of research and education, (2) promotion of natural resource sustainability, (3) market promotion, and (4) encouragement of owners and operators of privately held land to initiate or expand maple-sugaring activities or to voluntarily make the land available to the public for maple-sugaring activities. Defines "maple-sugaring" as
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Heroes Small Business Lifeline Act [S.4818]
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Provides economic support to small business affected by COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) by extending and expanding existing initiatives such as the Paycheck Protection Program, establishing a new lifeline grant program, and providing dedicated assistance for industries such as restaurants and live entertainment.
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The Heroes Act [S.4800]
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A bill to provide Coronavirus relief.
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Maple Tapping Access Program Act [S.691]
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Maple Tapping Access Program Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to make grants to states and tribal governments to promote the domestic maple syrup industry through: (1) promotion of research and education, (2) promotion of natural resource sustainability, (3) market promotion, and (4) encouragement of owners and operators of privately held land to initiate or expand maple-sugaring activities or to voluntarily make the land available to the public for maple-sugaring activities. Defines "maple-sugaring" as the collection of sap
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Free Sugar Act of 2011 [S.685]
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Free Sugar Act of 2011 - Amends the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 to repeal the sugar loan program.
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Enacting President Obama's Recommendations for Program Termination Act [S.475]
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Enacting President Obama's Recommendations for Program Termination Act - Prohibits federal expenditures for specified programs in: (1) the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), (2) the Department of Education, (3) the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), (4) the Department of Labor, (5) the Department of Defense (DOE), (6) the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), (7) the Department of Agriculture, (8) the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), (9) the Department of Energy (DOE), (10) the Department of Justice (DOJ), (11)
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MILC Preservation Act of 2011 [S.459]
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MILC Preservation Act of 2011 - Amends the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 regarding the milk income loss contract program to: (1) make the current producer payment formula permanent, and (2) revise the payment rate adjustment for feed prices by deleting the subsequent adjustment authority provision.