United StatesFederal program could pay high-value crop producers for disaster losses
The Agriculture Secretary could pay high-value crop producers for revenue, quality, or production losses caused by listed weather and fire events.
What it does
The Agriculture Secretary could pay producers of high-value crops, including citrus, for revenue, quality, or production losses caused by listed weather and fire events. The program could use block grants to states and territories.
Argument forPayments could help high-value crop producers recover from lost revenue or production after drought, wildfire, derecho, or tornado.
Argument againstBecause the Secretary could choose whether to run the program, producers might receive no payment even after a covered crop loss.
More detail
The Agriculture Secretary could run a program that pays producers for covered crop losses. The program would cover producers of high-value crops, including citrus, and could pay for lost revenue, quality, or production. Losses would have to result from drought, wildfire, hurricane, flood, derecho, excessive heat, tornado, winter storm, freeze including a polar vortex, smoke exposure, or excessive moisture. The Secretary could run the program through block grants to states and territories.
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Where it stands
- Introduced
- Passed House
- Passed Senate
- To President
- Became Law
Looking ahead
No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2026
- Oct 5Introduced in HouseLatest
- Oct 5Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.Introduced
AgricultureEmergency ManagementConsumer Protection