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Proposed Legislation Offers Lifeline to Producers
Published Monday, November 23, 2009 at 04:58 AM
Senate Ag Committee Chairman Blanche Lincoln has joined Senator Thad Cochran, Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Mississippi Senator Roger wicker in introducing legislation that would provide timely disaster assistance to farmers affected by this fall’s heavy rains, floods and other weather-related disasters. Arkansas Representative Marion Berry plans to introduce companion legislation. The measure would ensure that producers receive relief in a timely manner by providing an estimated 1.3-billion dollars in direct payment assistance to producers in counties declared “primary” disaster areas by USDA. The Congressional Budget Office has scored the legislation at 2.19-billion dollars. It will be paid for with funds available through the Troubled Asset Relief Program.

Lincoln says, in these difficult economic times, this measure will help ensure our farmers can continue to meet our food and fiber needs while providing much-needed economic strength to our rural communities. The language also includes 650-million dollars to assist specialty crop producers, 150-million in assistance for livestock producers and 42-million to aid first handlers of cottonseed.

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