To amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act and the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 to make the native sod provisions applicable to the United States and to modify those provisions, and for other purposes.
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Latest Action · May 10, 2023
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text: CR S1606)
The American Prairie Conservation Act amends federal crop insurance and disaster assistance programs to track and potentially restrict farming on native prairie grasslands. The legislation requires farmers who till native sod land to grow insurable crops to certify their acreage to the U.S. Department of Agriculture using standard farm forms and maps, and to report any changes to this certified acreage. The bill affects farmers across the country who convert native grasslands for crop production and who receive federal crop insurance or noninsured crop disaster assistance benefits. The Secretary of Agriculture must submit annual reports to Congress from January 2024 through January 2028 documenting the total acres of tilled native sod certified in each county and state. The bill establishes no specific funding but creates a tracking and reporting mechanism to monitor native prairie conversion nationwide.
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