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Version 00 · Introduced in Senate · Mar 30, 2000
Amends the Agricultural Market Transition Act to provide an alternative loan deficiency payment computation permitting producers to lock in a rate of up to 85 percent of the loan commodity (yield) from the date that the Secretary of Agriculture determines that a fall- or spring-planted commodity is beginning to be harvested until producers begin harvesting such commodity.States that payments shall be received after: (1) harvest of the total quantity of the loan commodity; and (2) receipt of related documentation by the Secretary.
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Sen. Grams, Rod [R-MN] · R–MN
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1990)
Introduced in Senate
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