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Version 00 · Introduced in House · Feb 13, 2025
Growing Rural Agricultural Infrastructure Needs to Deliver Rising Yields Act or the GRAIN DRY Act
This bill specifies that funds provided under the Farm Storage Facility Loan Program may be used to construct or upgrade storage facilities for propane that is primarily used for agricultural production.
This Department of Agriculture loan program provides low-interest financing for agricultural producers to build or upgrade commodity storage facilities. Some agricultural producers use propane to power agricultural operations (e.g., grain dryers, irrigation engines, and barn heating).
People & committees
Rep. Finstad, Brad [R-MN-1] · R–MN
Legislative record
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Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, Risk Management, and Credit.
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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Based on the full Introduced in House · 2025-02-13 text. This explanation has not received human editorial review. This overview describes the proposal’s major provisions; it does not establish what its real-world effects would be.
The proposed GRAIN DRY Act would expand a federal storage-facility loan provision to cover agricultural producers constructing or upgrading propane storage facilities. The propane would have to be used primarily for agricultural production.
This Act may be cited as the Growing Rural Agricultural Infrastructure Needs to Deliver Rising Yields Act or the GRAIN DRY Act
2. Storage facility loans Section 1614(a) of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 8789(a)) is amended
agricultural producers to construct or upgrade storage facilities for propane that is primarily used for agricultural production
The bill would add construction and upgrades of qualifying propane storage facilities as another purpose covered by the existing storage-facility loan provision. Its primary-use requirement would not require the propane to be used exclusively for agriculture.
in paragraph (1) (as so designated), by striking the period at the end and inserting the following: ; or (2) agricultural producers to construct or upgrade storage facilities for propane that is primarily used for agricultural production
The proposal would use the definition of agricultural production in a specified federal regulation, using the version in effect when this new paragraph becomes law.
agricultural production (as such term is defined in section 4279.2 of title 7, Code of Federal Regulations (as in effect on the date of the enactment of this paragraph))
The supplied actions snapshot, updated April 14, 2026, records introduction and referral to the House Committee on Agriculture on February 13, 2025, followed by referral to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, Risk Management, and Credit on March 20, 2025.
Source snapshot updated 2026-04-14T14:59:08Z. 2025-03-20: Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, Risk Management, and Credit. 2025-02-13: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture. 2025-02-13: Introduced in House
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