Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to use surplus agricultural commodities to make supplemental payments-in-kind (up to a $25,000 equivalent) to producers who divert acreage from the production of agricultural commodities under a basic payment-in-kind program and devote such acreage to at least five years of long-term conservation uses.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.
Committee on Agriculture requested executive comment from Agriculture Department.
Subcommittee on Soil and Water Conservation. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 98-496.
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