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Charles W. Stenholm: “this amendment requires USDA to review the effects that decoupled payments under the Agriculture Market Transition Act…”

On the recordOctober 3, 2001
this amendment requires USDA to review the effects that decoupled payments under the Agriculture Market Transition Act have had on the economic viability of farmers and farming infrastructure, especially in areas where conditions limit the program crops that can be grown. The review must include a case study of the effects that decoupled payments, increases in decreases payments, for example, disaster assistance, and other countercyclical decoupled payments, will have on rice producers and the rice industry in Texas. USDA has 90 days from enactment to report its findings and recommendations on ways to minimize adverse impacts on rice farmers and the rice industry to the Committee on Agriculture.
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Discussing an amendment related to the review of decoupled payments and their impact on farmers.

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