3.0.0 3860 2026-08-24T15:33:53Z 2026-08-24T15:33:53Z Senate S S 2026-02-12 119 https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/3860 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Standing Referred To 2026-02-12T18:21:04Z Office of Small Farms Establishment Act of 2026 119 7562 HR 2026-03-20 Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, Risk Management, and Credit. Identical bill CRS 2026-02-12 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. IntroReferral 2026-02-12 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress B001288 Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ] Cory Booker D NJ N Agriculture and Food Agriculture and Food 2026-02-27T16:30:49Z 00 2026-02-12 Introduced in Senate 2026-08-24T15:32:04Z Office of Small Farms Establishment Act of 2026

This bill requires the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to establish the Office of Small Farms within the farm production and conservation mission area. 

The office must coordinate, review, and implement various programs and activities related to small farms, ranches, and forest operations. Under the bill, a small farm, ranch, or forest operation (1) is less than 180 acres or meets another USDA-determined, acreage-based definition of small; and (2) has an annual gross cash farm income of less than $350,000.

Among other things, the activities of the office related to small farms, ranches, and forest operations must include

  • coordinating USDA efforts to improve support for these operators;
  • providing or coordinating technical assistance for these operators for USDA grant, cost-share, and loan programs; and
  • providing grants of not more than $25,000 to these operators directly or through cooperative agreements with other entities for areas including equipment and infrastructure repairs and upgrades, uninsured losses, business planning, and conservation practice adoption.

In addition, the Office of Small Farms must designate a small farms coordinator in each state.

]]> Office of Small Farms Establishment Act of 2026 Display Title 45 Office of Small Farms Establishment Act of 2026 2026-02-26T03:53:24Z Short Title(s) as Introduced 101 Office of Small Farms Establishment Act of 2026 2026-02-26T03:53:23Z Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced 6 A bill to amend the Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994 to establish an Office of Small Farms, and for other purposes. 2026-02-26T03:48:21Z Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2026-02-12T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-119s3860is/xml/BILLS-119s3860is.xml 2026-02-12 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.