Home/All Topics/Impact Updated the expenditure-tracking flow to Mermaid and kept the rest of the document intact. Legislative and Policy Analysis Section 10507: Poultry insurance pilot program Executive Summary Section 10507 creates a new poultry insurance pilot program within the Federal Crop Insurance Act. It directs the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, administered through USDA’s Risk Management…

Home/All Topics/Impact Legislative and Policy Analysis Section 10506: Reviews, compliance, and integrity Executive Summary Section 10506 increases the annual funding cap for a specific Federal Crop Insurance Corporation review, compliance, and integrity authority from $7 million to $10 million beginning in fiscal year 2026 and for each fiscal year thereafter.[1] The section does not create…

Home/All Topics/Impact Legislative and Policy Analysis Section 10505: Program compliance and integrity Executive Summary Section 10505 is a narrow crop-insurance oversight funding provision. It amends Section 515(l)(2) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act, which funds data mining and related information-technology tools used to administer and enforce the Federal crop insurance program.1 The section raises the…

Home/All Topics/Impact Legislative and Policy Analysis Section 10504: Premium support Executive Summary Section 10504 increases federal premium support for several levels of buy-up crop insurance coverage under the Federal Crop Insurance Act. It does not create a new crop insurance product, a new grant program, or a direct farmer payment. Instead, it raises the percentage…

Home/All Topics/Impact Legislative and Policy Analysis Section 10503: Administrative and operating expense adjustments Executive Summary Section 10503 changes the federal crop insurance delivery subsidy system by increasing administrative and operating reimbursements paid to approved crop insurance providers and agents. The section does not directly raise a producer’s premium subsidy or create a new consumer-facing benefit.…

Home/All Topics/Impact Legislative and Policy Analysis Section 10502: Area-based crop insurance coverage and affordability Executive Summary Section 10502 expands and subsidizes higher levels of area-based crop insurance coverage under the Federal Crop Insurance Act. It does not create a new grant program, direct appropriation, or stand-alone payment account. Instead, it changes the crop insurance rules…

Home/All Topics/Impact Legislative and Policy Analysis Section 10501: Beginning farmer and rancher benefit Executive Summary Section 10501 expands crop insurance benefits for beginning farmers and ranchers by changing the Federal Crop Insurance Act definition of a beginning farmer or rancher from a producer with no more than 5 crop years of active farm or ranch…

Home/All Topics/Impact Legislative and Policy Analysis Section 10401: Supplemental agricultural disaster assistance Executive Summary Section 10401 expands several standing USDA disaster assistance programs for livestock, forage, honeybees, farm-raised fish, and trees. It does not create a single new disaster appropriation with a fixed dollar total. Instead, it changes eligibility rules, payment rates, and loss calculations…

Home/All Topics/Impact Legislative and Policy Analysis Section 10314: Implementation Executive Summary Section 10314 provides a dedicated implementation fund for the commodity-program changes made in Subtitle C of Title I of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. It amends section 1614(c) of the Agricultural Act of 2014, codified at 7 U.S.C. 9097(c), by adding $50 million…

Home/All Topics/Impact Legislative and Policy Analysis Section 10313: Dairy policy updates Executive Summary Section 10313 updates the federal Dairy Margin Coverage program, the USDA Farm Service Agency safety-net program that pays participating dairy operations when the national milk-feed margin falls below the coverage level selected by the producer.[1] The section does four main things. First,…

Home/All Topics/Impact Legislative and Policy Analysis Section 10312: Sugar program updates Executive Summary Section 10312 updates the federal sugar program for the 2025 through 2031 crop years. It raises the raw cane sugar loan rate to 24.00 cents per pound and sets the refined beet sugar loan rate at 136.55 percent of the raw cane…

Home/All Topics/Impact Legislative and Policy Analysis Section 10311: Economic adjustment assistance for textile mills Executive Summary Section 10311 increases the federal payment rate under the Economic Adjustment Assistance for Textile Mills program for eligible domestic users of upland cotton. The section changes the assistance rate from 3 cents per pound to 5 cents per pound…