3.0.0 499 2023-01-11T13:35:23Z 2023-01-11T13:35:23Z Senate S 2017-03-02 115 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2017-03-02T17:06:02Z 2017-03-02 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. IntroReferral 2017-03-02 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress T000250 Sen. Thune, John [R-SD] John Thune R SD R. N Agriculture and Food Agricultural conservation and pollution Agricultural insurance Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit Farmland Minority and disadvantaged businesses Small business Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation Water use and supply Wildlife conservation and habitat protection Agriculture and Food 00 2017-03-02 Introduced in Senate 2017-07-17T20:22:19Z Soil Health and Income Protection Program Act of 2017 or the SHIPP Act of 2017

This bill amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to establish a voluntary soil health and income protection program.

Landowners and operators may enroll eligible land in the program by agreeing to adopt certain practices to conserve and improve the soil, water, and wildlife resources of the land for a period of three to five years in exchange for rental payments and additional crop insurance premium discounts.

During the period of the agreement:

  • the lowest practicable cost perennial conserving use cover crop must be planted on the enrolled land at the expense of the enrollee;
  • the land may be harvested for seed, hayed, or grazed outside the nesting and brood-rearing period, but may not be insured and is subject to a 25% reduction in rental payments if the land is harvested for seed;
  • the land may be eligible for a walk-in access program of the applicable state; and
  • a nonprofit wildlife organization may provide to the owner or operator of the eligible land a payment in exchange for an agreement by the owner or operator not to harvest the conserving use cover.

Beginning, small, socially disadvantaged, young, or veteran farmers and ranchers are only required to pay 50% of the cost of planting the conserving using cover crop and are eligible for increased payments and crop insurance premium discounts under the program.

A maximum of 15% of the eligible land on a farm may be enrolled in the program.

]]> SHIPP Act of 2017 Display Title SHIPP Act of 2017 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to address needs in the agriculture sector by establishing a voluntary, short-term conserving use program for participating farmers, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced SHIPP Act of 2017 Short Titles as Introduced Soil Health and Income Protection Program Act of 2017 Introduced in Senate 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-115s499is/xml/BILLS-115s499is.xml 2017-03-02 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.