S 3870 · 111th Congress · Agriculture and Food
A bill to amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act to permit certain livestock owners to plant a secondary crop for the use of the producer as emergency feed.
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Introduced2
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House5
EnactedLatest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.(2010-09-29)
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Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to permit an agricultural producer who owns livestock to plant a second crop on the same acreage for harvest in the same crop year as a first crop and receive full prevented planting indemnity payments if such producer: (1) is located in an area that experienced excessive precipitation which prevented the first crop's planting by its final planting date; and (2) uses the second crop solely for emergency feed for the producer's livestock.…
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