Ensuring Disaster Recovery and Resilience for Specialty Crops Act

This bill would require the Secretary of Agriculture to set up a permanent framework for direct payments to specialty crop producers whose production is hurt by an adverse event, including an economic crisis or market disruption. Payments would be based on a producer's sales from a prior year or an average of prior years, multiplied by a payment factor the Secretary sets based on available funds. In setting assistance, the Secretary would consider the higher value and input costs of specialty crops and the different business structures producers use. Payments per person or entity would be capped at the existing farm program limit, but producers earning at least 75 percent of their income from farming, ranching, or forestry would have a limit set by the Secretary of no less than $500,000.

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Sponsors

• Adam B. Schiff Democrat sponsor
• 2 cosponsors