AGRICULTURAL MARKET TRANSITION ACT

Bills and resolutions

Agriculture: encourage producers to rest and rehabilitate croplands while enhancing soil and water conservation and wildlife habitat (see H.R. 3847), H756 [8MR]

———establish a flexible fallow program under which farmers can devote a portion of acreage to conservation use and receive a higher loan rate on their remaining crop production (see S. 2818), S6121 [29JN] (see H.R. 5205), H7870 [19SE]

———extend the term of marketing assistance loans and increase and make more equitable the loan rates on commodities (see H.R. 4979), H7128 [26JY]

———payment of special loan deficiency payments to eligible producers who have suffered yield losses due to damaging weather or disasters (see H.R. 5125), H7364 [7SE]

Dept. of Agriculture: allow commodity producers to lock in a loan deficiency payment rate for a portion of a crop (see S. 2332), S1986 [30MR] (see H.R. 4523), H3649 [23MY]

———increase number of farmers eligible for nonrecourse marketing assistance loans or loan deficiency payments and the amount of production for which such loans and payments are available (see H.R. 4524), H3649 [23MY]

Letters

Flexible fallow program establishment under which farmers can devote a portion of acreage to conservation use and receive a higher loan rate on their remaining crop production: Neil E. Harl, Iowa State University, S6130 [29JN]

Remarks in House

Agriculture: encourage producers to rest and rehabilitate croplands while enhancing soil and water conservation and wildlife habitat (H.R. 3847), H705 [8MR]

———extend the term of marketing assistance loans and increase and make more equitable the loan rates on commodities (H.R. 4979), E1337 [27JY]

Remarks in Senate

Agriculture: establish a flexible fallow program under which farmers can devote a portion of acreage to conservation use and receive a higher loan rate on their remaining crop production (S. 2818), S6130 [29JN]

Dept. of Agriculture: allow commodity producers to lock in a loan deficiency payment rate for a portion of a crop (S. 2332), S1990 [30MR]

Northeast Interstate Dairy Compact: repeal (S. 916), S5290 [16JN]