To amend the commodity provisions of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to permit producers to aggregate base acres and reconstitute farms to avoid the prohibition on receiving direct payments, counter-cyclical payments, or average crop revenue election payments when the sum of the base acres of a farm is 10 acres or less, and for other purposes.
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Congressional Budget OfficeH.R. 6849, A bill to amend the commodity provisions of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to permit producers to aggregate base acres and reconstitute farms to avoid the prohibition on receiving direct payments, countercyclical paymen
Sep 22, 2008<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Agriculture on September 19, 2008</p>
Full CBO report ↗H.R. 6849, A bill to amend the commodity provisions of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to permit producers to aggregate base acres and reconstitute farms to avoid the prohibition on receiving direct payments, countercyclical paymen
Sep 22, 2008Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Agriculture on September 19, 2008
Full CBO report ↗Official non-partisan budget analysis by the Congressional Budget Office