3.0.0 2263 2023-01-11T13:39:05Z 2023-01-11T13:39:05Z Senate S 2017-12-21 115 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2017-12-21T18:03:01Z 2017-12-21 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. IntroReferral 2017-12-21 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress D000607 Sen. Donnelly, Joe [D-IN] Joe Donnelly D IN N Y000064 Sen. Young, Todd [R-IN] Todd Young R IN C. 2017-12-21 True B001230 Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI] Tammy Baldwin D WI 2018-03-13 False Agriculture and Food Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit Fruit and vegetables Agriculture and Food 00 2017-12-21 Introduced in Senate 2018-08-03T18:55:38Z Fruit and Vegetable Planting Flexibility Act of 2017

This bill amends the Agricultural Act of 2014 to modify the effect that planting fruits, vegetables, or wild rice on a farm has on the acreage eligible for payments under Department of Agriculture (USDA) commodity programs.

Under current law, payments acres on a farm must be reduced by specified amounts in any year in which fruits, vegetables (other than mung beans and pulse crops), or wild rice have been planted on base acres on the farm.

For each year in which there is a reduction in payment acres on a farm due to the planting of fruits, vegetables, or wild rice on base acres, the bill requires USDA to maintain the commodity program eligibility of those base acres by considering the acres to be planted or prevented from planting to a covered commodity when USDA recalculates the base acres for the farm under the commodity programs.

]]> Fruit and Vegetable Planting Flexibility Act of 2017 Display Title Fruit and Vegetable Planting Flexibility Act of 2017 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Agricultural Act of 2014 to require base acres planted to fruits, vegetables, and wild rice to be considered planted to a covered commodity for purposes of any recalculation of base acres. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Fruit and Vegetable Planting Flexibility Act of 2017 Introduced in Senate 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-115s2263is/xml/BILLS-115s2263is.xml 2017-12-21 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.