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S 3644 110th Congress Senate Agriculture and Food Agricultural subsidies Appropriations Aquaculture Disaster relief Economics and Public Finance Emergency Management Florida Louisiana Storage Sugar Texas

Farm Relief Act of 2008

Introduced: September 27, 2008 See on congress.gov
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Sep 27, 2008
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Sep 27, 2008
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Farm Relief Act of 2008 - Amends the U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act, 2007 to appropriate funds for: (1) emergency financial assistance to producers on a farm that incurred qualifying natural disaster-caused quantity or quality losses for the 2008 crop; (2) certain processors in Florida for natural disaster-caused crop and other losses in 2008; (3) certain first processors of sugarcane that operate in a county affected by a natural disaster or obtain sugarcane from a county affected by a natural disaster in Louisiana; and (4) certain sugarcane growers in Texas for natural disaster-caused demurrage, storage, and transportation costs in 2008.

Provides specified Commodity Credit Corporation funds for grants to state departments of agriculture for assistance to eligible catfish producers to help offset natural disaster-caused feed costs or economic losses in 2008.

What's happening now September 27, 2008

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 1
All 1 Republican 1