S 2762
115th Congress
Senate
Agriculture and Food
Agricultural education
Agricultural insurance
Agricultural practices and innovations
Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
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Next Generation in Agriculture Act
Introduced: April 26, 2018
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Everywhere this bill has been
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Introduced
In committee
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Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Apr 26, 2018
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Apr 26, 2018
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Next Generation in Agriculture Act
This bill modifies several Department of Agriculture (USDA) programs and policies to provide additional assistance to beginning farmers and ranchers.
The bill includes provisions that
- reauthorize and modify the Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program,
- create a permanent National Beginning Farmer and Rancher Coordinator and an Agricultural Youth Coordinator within USDA,
- establish a next generation agriculture technology challenge competition to provide an incentive for the development of innovative mobile technology that removes barriers to entry in the marketplace for beginning farmers and ranchers, and
- modify the definitions used for the Federal Crop Insurance Program to specify that a beginning farmer or rancher includes a farmer or rancher who has not farmed for more than 10 years (currently 5 years).
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Committees of jurisdiction
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