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S 2810 111th Congress Senate Agriculture and Food Administrative law and regulatory procedures Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit Department of Agriculture Disaster relief and insurance Financial crises and stabilization Livestock

A bill to require the Secretary of Agriculture to provide emergency disaster assistance to certain agricultural producers that suffered losses during the 2009 calendar year.

Introduced: November 20, 2009 See on congress.gov
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Nov 20, 2009
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Nov 20, 2009
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) make a supplemental direct commodity payment to eligible producers that previously received such a payment; (2) make grants to states to assist eligible specialty crop producers for losses associated with drought or excessive rainfall during 2009; (3) provide supplemental assistance to eligible producers and first-handlers of the 2009 crop of cottonseed in disaster counties; (4) continue to carry out the 2002 livestock compensation program and provide assistance to any applicant that conducts a livestock operation located in a disaster county or produces fish classified within the family Ictaluridae (catfish); and (5) make payments to eligible producers for livestock losses occurring in a disaster county.


What's happening now November 20, 2009

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

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