Agricultural Disaster Assistance Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Agricultural Disaster Assistance

Creator

  • Author: Chite, Ralph M.
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: Resources, Science, and Industry Division

Publisher

  • Name: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.
    Place of Publication: Washington D.C.

Date

  • Creation: 2004-11-02

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) offers several permanently authorized programs to help farmers recover financially from a natural disaster, including federal crop insurance, the non-insured assistance program and emergency disaster loans. In recent years, Congress frequently has made supplemental financial assistance available to farmers and ranchers on an ad-hoc basis, most notably in the form of direct crop disaster payments and emergency livestock assistance. Congress provided an estimated $3.1 billion of such assistance in the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2003 (P.L. 108-7) for 2001 and 2002 crop and livestock losses. Some farm groups would like to see similar assistance provided for 2003 losses, particularly in regions of the Midwest and West that have experienced prolonged drought conditions. To date, no ad-hoc assistance has been made available for 2003 losses.
  • Physical Description: 6 pages.

Subject

  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Emergency management
  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Agricultural credit
  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Agricultural insurance
  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Disaster relief
  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Finance
  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Agriculture

Collection

  • Name: Congressional Research Service Reports
    Code: CRSR

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
    Code: UNTGD

Rights

  • Rights Access: public

Resource Type

  • Report

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • CRS Report Number: RS21212
  • Accession or Local Control No: RS21212 2004-11-02
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metacrs7108
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