US Congress House Bill 2675 (Prior Session Legislation)

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July 27 2011 - Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Pending: House Agriculture Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Farming Flexibility Act of 2011 - Amends the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to consider mung beans and pulse crops as covered commodities whose planting on base acres is prohibited unless the commodity, if planted, is destroyed before harvest. Provides that: (1) as of crop year 2012 producers on a farm may reduce the base acres for any covered commodity for a crop year by one acre for each acre used for the production of fruits or vegetables (other than potatoes) for processing; (2) such acres devoted to fruits or vegetables shall be included in base acres for the covered commodity for the subsequent crop year unless the producers on the farm make the election to produce fruits and vegetables for the subsequent crop year; and (3) if a farm's base acres are recalculated the production of fruits or vegetables shall be considered to be the same as the planting, prevented planting, or production of a covered commodity. Requires producers to: (1) demonstrate that they have entered into a contract to produce a fruit or vegetable crop for processing, (2) produce such crop as part of a crop rotation program to achieve agronomic and pest and disease management benefits, and (3) provide evidence of the crop's disposition.

Farming Flexibility Act of 2011

Rep Ribble, Reid J.	Rep Baldwin, Tammy	Rep Boswell, Leonard L.	Rep Burton, Dan
Rep Calvert, Ken	Rep Donnelly, Joe	Rep Duffy, Sean P.	Rep Hultgren, Randy
Rep Johnson, Timothy V.	Rep Kind, Ron	Rep Pence, Mike	Rep Petri, Thomas E.
Rep Rokita, Todd	Rep Schilling, Robert T.	Rep Stivers, Steve	Rep Stutzman, Marlin A.
Rep Walz, Timothy J.

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-07-27	House	Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.

SB1427 (Related) 2011-07-27 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

Type	Source
Summary	http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:HN02675:@@@L&summ2=m&
Text	http://gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr2675ih/pdf/BILLS-112hr2675ih.pdf