3.0.0 1998 2023-01-11T13:38:14Z 2023-01-11T13:38:14Z Senate S 2017-10-24 115 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2017-10-24T21:15:52Z Agriculture Risk Coverage Improvement and Innovation Act of 2018 115 2749 S 2018-04-25 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Related bill CRS 2017-10-24 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. IntroReferral 2017-10-24 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress H001069 Sen. Heitkamp, Heidi [D-ND] Heidi Heitkamp D ND N E000295 Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA] Joni Ernst R IA 2017-10-24 True Agriculture and Food Administrative remedies Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit Government information and archives Agriculture and Food 00 2017-10-24 Introduced in Senate 2018-05-23T18:58:50Z ARC-CO Improvement Act

This bill amends the Agricultural Act of 2014 to authorize the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to make certain adjustments to county yields used to calculate actual crop revenue under the Agriculture Risk Coverage-County Level program (ARC-CO) to reduce disparities between neighboring and nearby counties with similar soils and climate that cannot be explained by a localized weather event.

(Under ARC-CO, farmers receive payments when the actual county crop revenue of a covered commodity is less than the ARC-CO guarantee for the covered commodity.)

In the case of county coverage, USDA must: (1) prioritize the use of yields from sources that provide the greatest geographic coverage of county-level data from the same source; and (2) use the yield, benchmark revenue, and payment rate based on the county of the physical location of the farm.

With respect to a farm that crosses county boundaries, USDA must: (1) split the base acres on a pro rata basis based on the relative quantity of cropland in each county, and (2) calculate any payments on the same pro rata basis.

]]> ARC-CO Improvement Act Display Title ARC-CO Improvement Act Short Titles as Introduced ARC-CO Improvement Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Agricultural Act of 2014 to reduce county yield disparities for agriculture risk coverage. Introduced in Senate 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-115s1998is/xml/BILLS-115s1998is.xml 2017-10-24 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.