To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to treat certain planted soybean crops as harvested commodity crops under the Market Facilitation Program.

This bill requires the Department of Agriculture to treat a soybean crop as an eligible crop for payments under the Market Facilitation Program (MFP) if market conditions have discouraged or prevented a producer of a soybean crop from harvesting the crop or entering the crop into the stream of commerce.

(The MFP provides payments to producers with commodities that have been significantly impacted by actions of foreign governments resulting in the loss of traditional exports.)

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7147 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7147

To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to treat certain planted soybean 
   crops as harvested commodity crops under the Market Facilitation 
                                Program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 16, 2018

 Mr. Abraham introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                        Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to treat certain planted soybean 
   crops as harvested commodity crops under the Market Facilitation 
                                Program.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. PLANTED CROP TREATED AS HARVESTED CROP.

    If the Secretary of Agriculture determines that market conditions 
have discouraged or prevented a producer of a soybean crop from 
harvesting such crop or entering such crop in to the stream of 
commerce, the Secretary shall, for purposes of the Market Facilitation 
Program under part 1409 of title 7, Code of Federal Regulations 
(established pursuant to the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act 
(15 U.S.C. 714 et seq.)) treat such soybean crop as an eligible crop 
for payments under such Market Facilitation Program.
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