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American Agriculture First Act [HB-7379]
American Agriculture First Act
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Pathogen Reduction and Testing Reform Act of 2018 [HB-7336]
Pathogen Reduction and Testing Reform Act of 2018 This bill amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act, the Poultry Products Inspection Act, and the Egg Products Inspection Act to revise the definition of "adulterated" to make explicit the authority of the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to issue a recall of meat, poultry, and egg products that contain microbial pathogens associated with serious illness or death or are resistant to two or more antibiotics critically important for human medicine. The bill requires USDA to establish sampling protocols
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Agriculture Research Integrity Act of 2018 [HB-7330]
Agriculture Research Integrity Act of 2018 This bill amends the Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994 to reaffirm that the Agricultural Research Service, the Economic Research Service, the National Agricultural Statistics Service, the National Institute for Food and Agriculture, and any successor agencies must be: (1) within the research, education, and economics mission area of the Department of Agriculture (USDA); and (2) administered by the USDA Under Secretary for Research, Education, and Economics. USDA must locate each of the
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REDUCE Government Waste Act Removing Excessive Dollars to Uproot and Cut Expensive Government Waste Act [S.3716]
REDUCE Government Waste Act Removing Excessive Dollars to Uproot and Cut Expensive Government Waste Act This bill amends the Agricultural Act of 2014 to repeal the rules for peanuts under the nonrecourse marketing assistance loan program administered by the Department of Agriculture (USDA). (Under a nonrecourse marketing assistance loan, a farmer pledges a commodity as collateral and may deliver the pledged collateral to USDA to repay the loan.) The bill also prohibits federal funds from being used for the development of: (1) a beerbot or other
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Animal Disease and Disaster Prevention, Surveillance, and Rapid Response Act of 2018 [S.3681]
Animal Disease and Disaster Prevention, Surveillance, and Rapid Response Act of 2018
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Wildfires and Hurricanes Indemnity Program Extension Act of 2018 [HB-7200]
Wildfires and Hurricanes Indemnity Program Extension Act of 2018 This bill amends the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 to extend the Department of Agriculture 2017 Wildfires and Hurricanes Indemnity Program. (Under current law, the program provides disaster payments to agricultural producers who suffered crop, tree, bush, and vine losses resulting from hurricanes and wildfires that occurred in the 2017 calendar year.) The bill extends the availability of the funding for the program through December 31, 2020, and expands the program to include losses
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Weekends Without Hunger Act [HB-7185]
Weekends Without Hunger Act This bill amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to require the Department of Agriculture to establish a program to provide commodities, on a competitive basis, to public or private nonprofit institutions to provide nutritious food to at-risk children on weekends and during extended school holidays throughout the year (At-risk children are children who are eligible to receive free or reduced price meals under the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act or the Child Nutrition Act of 1966.)
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To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to treat certain planted soybean crops as harvested commodity crops under the Market Facilitation Program. [HB-7147]
To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to treat certain planted soybean crops as harvested commodity crops under the Market Facilitation Program. This bill requires the Department of Agriculture to treat a soybean crop as an eligible crop for payments under the Market Facilitation Program (MFP) if market conditions have discouraged or prevented a producer of a soybean crop from harvesting the crop or entering the crop into the stream of commerce. (The MFP provides payments to producers with commodities that have been significantly impacted by actions
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Specialty Crop Mechanization Prize Challenge of 2018 [HB-7110]
Specialty Crop Mechanization Prize Challenge of 2018 This bill requires the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to establish a Specialty Crop Mechanization Challenges program to carry out prize competitions for the mechanization of specialty crop production. (Specialty crops are fruits and vegetables, tree nuts, dried fruits, and horticulture and nursery crops, including floriculture.) The program must include at least one prize competition for solutions to automate or alleviate stresses on the workforce during each of the following: the planting of
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Crop Insurance Fairness Act of 2018 [HB-7088]
Crop Insurance Fairness Act of 2018
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A resolution designating October 16, 2018, as "World Food Day". [SR-679]
A resolution designating October 16, 2018, as "World Food Day". Designates October 16, 2018, as World Food Day and encourages the people of the United States to observe the day with appropriate ceremonies and activities.
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A bill to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to provide emergency payments to dairy producers. [S.3586]
A bill to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to provide emergency payments to dairy producers. This bill requires the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to issue emergency payments to dairy producers. USDA must develop criteria for the payments that give priority to producers who are: (1) located in a state with a high cost of dairy production compared to other states, and (2) on a farm with a high cost of dairy production based on the size of the farm. The emergency payments provided under this bill must be at least $10,000 but no greater than $20,000
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Expressing support for the designation of October 16 as World Food Day. [HR-1113]
Expressing support for the designation of October 16 as World Food Day. Expresses support for the designation of World Food Day and encourages the people of the United States to observe the day with appropriate ceremonies and activities.
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DRIP Act Drought Relief through Innovative Projects Act [HB-6961]
DRIP Act Drought Relief through Innovative Projects Act This bill requires the Department of Agriculture to establish a program to award grants to qualified partnerships to: (1) remove non-native plant species that contribute to drought conditions, and (2) replace the non-native plant species with native plant species. A "non-native plant species" is a plant species that: (1) is non-native (or alien) to an ecosystem; and (2) when introduced to the ecosystem causes, or is likely to cause, economic harm, environmental harm, or harm to human health.
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Breakfast After the Bell Act of 2018 [HB-6934]
Breakfast After the Bell Act of 2018
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A resolution recognizing the contributions of American Viticultural Areas and winegrowing regions. [SR-649]
A resolution recognizing the contributions of American Viticultural Areas and winegrowing regions. Recognizes: (1) the contributions made by wines and distinctive wine-growing regions in the United States; and (2) the value created in domestic and foreign markets by promoting wines from distinctive wine-growing regions in the United States, including wines protected by an American Viticultural Area designation or other appellation of origin.
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Agricultural Export Promotion Act of 2018 [S.3407]
Agricultural Export Promotion Act of 2018 This bill establishes the United States Agricultural Export Promotion Fund and requires the Department of the Treasury to transfer to the fund an amount equivalent to certain duties imposed on imported goods under the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 or the Trade Act of 1974. The amounts in the fund must be available to the Department of Agriculture (USDA), without further appropriation, for carrying out activities of the Foreign Market Development Program, the Market Access Program, and the Technical Assistance
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Agricultural Export Promotion Act of 2018 [HB-6699]
Agricultural Export Promotion Act of 2018 This bill establishes the United States Agricultural Export Promotion Fund and requires the Department of the Treasury to transfer to the fund an amount equivalent to certain duties imposed on imported goods under the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 or the Trade Act of 1974. The amounts in the fund must be available to the Department of Agriculture (USDA), without further appropriation, for carrying out activities of the Foreign Market Development Program, the Market Access Program, and the Technical Assistance
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Expressing support for the designation of September 25, 2017, as "National Lobster Day". [HR-536]
Expressing support for the designation of September 25, 2017, as "National Lobster Day". Encourages the observance of National Lobster Day with appropriate ceremonies and activities.
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To amend the Agricultural Act of 2014 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to use certain data in determining an actual or benchmark county yield, and for other purposes. [HB-4654]
To amend the Agricultural Act of 2014 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to use certain data in determining an actual or benchmark county yield, and for other purposes. This bill amends the Agricultural Act of 2014, with respect to the Agricultural Risk Coverage program, to require the Department of Agriculture to: (1) use specified data to assign actual or benchmark county yields, and (2) make payments to producers using the payment rate of the county of the physical location of the base acres of a farm.