HR 6849 · 110th Congress · Agriculture and Food

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.

Introduced 2008-09-09· Sponsored by Rep. Etheridge, Bob [D-NC-2]· House

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Latest: Became Public Law No: 110-398.(2008-10-13)

Plain Language Summary

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Amends the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to exempt from the prohibition on receiving direct payments, counter-cyclical payments, or average crop revenue election payments when the sum of a farm's base acres is 10 acres or less: (1) a farm owned by a socially disadvantaged or limited resource farmer or rancher; or (2) a producer whose aggregate total base acres of all farms are greater than 10 acres, including farms owned by a producer or operated by a producer with the owner's concurrence, including farms operated under a crop-share lease arrangement. Permits a producer to reconstitute any farms to exceed the 10 base acre minimum through consolidation of the farms' base acreage.…

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CBO Cost Estimate

Congressional Budget Office

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, 2008

<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Agriculture on September 19, 2008</p>

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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, 2008

Cost 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

Cosponsors (20)

15 Democrats5 Republicans