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Foos Security Act of 1985
An act to extend and revise agriculture price support and related programs, to provide for agricultural export, resource conservation, farm credit, and agricultural research and related programs, to continue food assistance to low-income persons, to ensure consumers an abundance of food and fiber at reasonable prices, and for other purposes -
1985
The Food Security Act of 1985 also known as the 1985 U.S. Farm Bill, a 5-year omnibus farm bill, allowed lower commodity price and income supports and established a dairy herd buyout program. This 1985 farm bill made changes in a variety of other USDA programs. Several enduring conservation programs were created, including sodbuster, swampbuster, and the Conservation Reserve Program -
FAIR 2
The law increased planting flexibility by allowing participants to plant 100% of their total contract acreage to any crop, except with limitations on fruits and vegetables. The authority for acreage reduction programs was eliminated, while non-recourse loans (with marketing loan repayment provisions) were continued in a modified form. Minimum loan rates generally were calculated each year at 85% of recent past market prices. -
FAIR Act
The Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 known informally as the Freedom to Farm Act, the FAIR Act, or the 1996 U.S. Farm Bill, was the omnibus 1996 farm bill that, among other provisions, revises and simplifies direct payment programs for crops and eliminates milk price supports through direct government purchases. -
Farm Bill
The 2014 Farm Bill has completely overhauled the U.S. crop commodity payment system. Direct payment, counter -cyclical payment, and ACRE (average crop revenue election) payment programs have all been eliminated. In place of the eliminated programs, the 2014 Farm Bill has created a new commodity safety net with 3 primary payment options and additional flexibility for how farmers enroll different crops into those programs. -
Farm Bill
The Agricultural Act of 2014 aka the Farm Bill is an omnibus legislation passed by the United States Congress, and signed into law by President Obama on February 7th, 2014. Farm Bills are passed about every five years, creating and reauthorizing federal programs in a number of different interests.
