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HOEVEN & BALDWIN INTRODUCE BIPARTISAN LEGISLATION TO ALLEVIATE FEED SHORTAGES
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WASHINGTON – Senators John Hoeven (R-N.D.) and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) have introduced the Feed Emergency Enhancement During Disasters with Cover Crops (FEEDD) Act, bipartisan legislation to provide farmers and ranchers additional flexibility to alleviate feed shortages in years with widespread excessive moisture, flooding or drought. Specifically, the bill would:
Create an emergency waiver authority for the Secretary of Agriculture to allow for haying, grazing or chopping of a cover crop on prevented plant acres before November 1 in the event of a feed shortage due to excessive moisture, flood or drought.
Feed Emergency Enhancement During Disasters with Cover Crops (FEEDD) Act, bipartisan legislation to provide farmers and ranchers with additional flexibility to alleviate feed shortages in years with widespread excessive moisture, flooding or drought.
Specifically, the bill would:
Create an emergency waiver authority for the Secretary of Agriculture to allow for haying, grazing or chopping of a cover crop on prevented plant acres before November 1 in the event of a feed shortage due to excessive moisture, flood or drought.
Under this waiver, producers would not see a reduction of their crop insurance indemnity.
Direct the Secretary to establish regional haying and grazing dates for each crop year.
(Washington, D.C.) The agency that administers federal crop insurance has had a lot on its plate in 2020.
With the COVID-19 pandemic and multiple natural disasters, farmers across the country were tasked with being on their toes, especially when it comes to protecting their crops. Martin Barbre is administrator of the USDA s Risk Management Agency. He says the agency tried to remain flexible in the odd year. 2020 federal crop insurance covered a liability of more than $113 billion for producers across the country, said Barbre. We ve paid out over $5.8 billion in indemnities to those producers. Obviously, we ve had a little bit of a pandemic going on this year and we ve been able to authorize a lot of crop insurance flexibilities. We ve extended deadlines, we ve waived certain requirements, we ve deferred interest for two months in a couple of situations.