HR 5861 116th Congress House Agriculture and Food Advisory bodies Agricultural conservation and pollution Agricultural education Agricultural insurance Agricultural marketing and promotion Agricultural practices and innovations Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit Agricultural research Air quality Alternative and renewable resources Animal protection and human-animal relationships Climate change and greenhouse gases Congressional oversight Consumer affairs Department of Agriculture Ecology Education programs funding Electric power generation and transmission Elementary and secondary education

Agriculture Resilience Act

Introduced: February 12, 2020 Introduced by: Pingree, Chellie Democratic · Maine See on congress.gov

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Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, Oversight and Reform, and House Administration, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Feb 12, 2020

Introduced in House

Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Agriculture Resilience Act

This bill addresses national greenhouse gas emission reduction efforts in the U.S. agriculture sector, including a national goal to achieve net-zero emissions by the year 2040.

Among other things, the bill

expands the purposes of federally supported agricultural research, extension, and education to include accelerating the ability of agriculture and the food system of the United States to first achieve net zero carbon emissions and then go further to be carbon positive by removing additional carbon dioxide from the atmosphere;
requires the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to establish a national network of regional hubs for risk adaptation and mitigation to climate change;
creates a soil health grant program for state and tribal governments;
revises the agricultural conservation easement program to require owners that receive cost-share assistance to have a conservation plan in place that addresses applicable resource concerns for the land subject to the easement, including soil health and greenhouse gas emissions reduction;
establishes an alternative manure management program to support non-digester dairy and livestock methane management strategies to effectively reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to maximize environmental benefits;
directs USDA to study dual-use renewable energy systems, including an assessment on the compatibility of different species of livestock and crop types with dual-use renewable energy system designs; and
provides competitive grants and technical assistance for local educational agencies to implement food waste measurement and reporting, prevention, education, and reduction projects.