RURAL DEVELOPMENT & FINANCIAL SECURITY COMMITTEE

October 19, 1999

1990/1996 Farm Bill Provisions
NASDA Policies
WHEAT, FEED GRAINS, COTTON, RICE, AND OILSEEDS 
    • Program Eligibility
    • Acreage Bases and Payment Yields
    • Acreage Reduction Program
    • Planting Flexibility
    • Annual Federal Spending Levels
    • Income Support Payments
    • 0/85 and 50/85 Conserving Use Payments
    • Nonrecourse Commodity Loans
    • Marketing Loans
    • Recourse Loans for High Moisture Feed Grains
    • Farmer Owned Reserve
    • Cotton and Rice Competitiveness 
    • Oilseeds
    • Payment Limitations

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

NASDA has no specific policy concerning individual commodity programs. 
 

Policy No. 12.8 Farm Income and Production Stability.
 

Policy No. 12.3 Agricultural Mediation Program.

DAIRY
    • Price Support Program
    • Federal Milk Marketing Orders
    • Northeast Dairy Compact
    • Dairy Export Incentive Program (DEIP)

Policy No. 11.2 Federal Milk Marketing Orders. 
 

Policy 11.3 Regional Marketing Agreements.
 

NASDA does not have specific policy regarding DEIP. General policy supports agricultural exports and states their importance for the continued strength of American agriculture.

SUGAR
    • No Cost Objective
    • Price Support
    • Limits on Marketing Domestic Sugar
    • Marketing Assessment for Deficit Reduction

No specific policy.

PEANUTS
    • Price Support
    • Poundage Quotas
    • Farm Poundage Quota Transfers
    • Marketing Assessment for Deficit Reduction
    • Sharing Losses

Policy No. 12.2 Agricultural Credit 

Policy No. 12.3 Agricultural Mediation Programs

Policy No. 12.4 Farm Service Agency
 

NASDA has not taken a specific position on poundage quotas or transfers.
 

No specific policy on marketing assessment for deficit reduction.

OTHER COMMODITY PROGRAM PROVISIONS

a. Permanent Price Support Authority

b. Tobacco Program

c. Honey Program

d. Use of CCC Funds for Salaries and Expenses

e. Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) Interest Rates

f. Commission on 21st Century Agriculture


 
 

NASDA does not have specific policy on permanent price support authority, but endorses Farm Income and Production Stability. 
 

Policy No. 11.5 Tobacco
 

No specific policy on the Honey Program or the use of CCC administrative funds.
 

Policy No. 12.3 Agricultural Mediation Programs

AGRICULTURAL CREDIT
 

a. Restrictions on Eligible Purposes for New Loans

b. Targeting Farm Loans

c. Authorized Loan Levels

d. Continuation Policy

e. Loan Forgiveness and Future Loan Eligibility

f. Delinquent Loan Buyouts

g. Trigger Mechanism for Loan Servicing Action

h. Disposition of Inventory Property


Policy No. 12.2 Agricultural Credit 

Policy No. 12.4 Farm Service Agency

CROP INSURANCE, RISK MANAGEMENT, AND DISASTER ASSISTANCE
 

a. Crop Insurance Purchase Requirement

b. Crop Insurance Delivery

c. Crops Eligible for Noninsured Assistance Program

d. Risk Management

e. Revenue Insurance

f. Options Pilot Program

g. Emergency Livestock Feed Assistance


Policy No. 12.8 Farm Income and Production Stability 

Policy No. 12.3 Agricultural Mediation Programs

RURAL DEVELOPMENT

a. Fund for Rural Development

b. Rural Investment Partnerships

c. Telemedicine and Distant Learning Services

d. Alternative Agricultural Research and Commercialization

e. State Rural Economic Review Panels

f. Rural Community Advancement Program

g. Community Facilities Grants

h. Rural Business Incubator Fund

Policy No. 13.2 Rural Development 

Policy No. 13.3 Rural Lending

Policy No. 13.4 The Needs of Rural America

Policy No. 13.7 Rural Education