To amend the Agricultural Market Transition Act to ensure that rice farms covered by a production flexibility contract remain in rice production during the term of the contract when the principal producer of rice on the farm is a tenant or sharecropper.
Rice Farmer Fairness Act - Amends the Agricultural Market Transition Act to require a rice cropland owner to maintain the land in rice production (or a cropping system rotation that includes rice) in order to remain eligible for production flexibility contact payments if a tenant or sharecropper was such land's principal rice producer before the contract was entered into.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E317)
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities.
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