AMENDMENT DESCRIPTION:
Amendment requires USDA to review the effects that
decoupled payments under the Agriculture Market Transition Act have had on the
economic viability of farmers and farming infrastructure; and requires the
review to include a case study of the effects that decoupled payments, increases
in decreases payments, for example, disaster assistance, and other
countercyclical decoupled payments, will have on rice producers and the rice
industry in Texas.
AMENDMENT PURPOSE:
An amendment numbered 53 printed in the Congressional
Record to add new section requiring a report on effect of certain farm program
payments on economic viability of producers and farming infrastructure.
STATUS: