A bill to provide disaster assistance to agricultural producers and ranchers.

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to permit farmers and ranchers to qualify for production-loss disaster assistance whether or not their counties have been designated as disaster areas. States that during the period July 1, 1983, through September 30, 1984, findings of the Secretary of Agriculture under such Act that a natural disaster exists in an area shall be deemed as determinations that an emergency exists for purposes of: (1) reserve wheat and feed grain inventories under the Agricultural Act of 1970; and (2) the privately-purchased livestock and poultry emergency feed program under the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977. Directs the Secretary to make such disaster assistance available for the preservation of foundation herds of livestock and poultry until September 30, 1984, or earlier as the Secretary may determine. States that such assistance shall be at 75 percent of the county loan level.…