A bill to amend the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to make emergency loans in an area if he determines that a labor dispute in which farmers are not participants results in farmers in such area incurring losses in production or sales of agricultural products.

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Provides, under the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act, that emergency loans shall be made available in any area of the United States, Puerto Rico, or the Virgin Islands which the Secretary of Agriculture has designated an emergency area due to a labor dispute, in which farmers are not participants, but which has prevented the production, processing or sale of products produced by farming, ranching or aquaculture operations. Requires that an applicant for an emergency loan has sustained at least a 20 percent loss of normal per acre or per animal production or sales as a result of the dispute.…