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S 671 100th Congress Senate Agriculture and Food Agricultural economics Agriculture and Rural Affairs Conservation of natural resources Environmental Protection Soil conservation Soil erosion

A bill to amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to provide that if the Secretary of Agriculture creates a bonus rental incentive with respect to the placing of land used to produce a commodity into the conservation reserve, all previous contracts for placing land producing that commodity into the reserve must be renegotiated to provide the same increase in rental.

Introduced: March 6, 1987 Introduced by: Grassley, Chuck Republican · Iowa See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 4 steps
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May 14, 1987
Committee on Agriculture. Rereferred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry following subcommittee reorganization.
Apr 16, 1987
Referred to Subcommittee on Agricultural Research, Gen. Leg.
Mar 6, 1987
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.
Mar 6, 1987
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to provide that if the Secretary of Agriculture increases rental payments offered to prospective conservation reserve participants, similar increases must be provided to participating producers of the same commodity.

What's happening now May 14, 1987

Committee on Agriculture. Rereferred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry following subcommittee reorganization.

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