A bill to revise and extend programs to provide price support and production stabilization for peanuts and upland cotton, and for other purposes.
Southern Agriculture Act of 1985 - Title I: Cotton - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to establish for the 1986 through 1989 cotton crops: (1) loan rates; (2) target prices; (3) disaster payments; and (4) acreage reduction and land diversion provisions. Suspends base acreage allotment and marketing quota provisions. Extends specified skiprow provisions through 1989.
Title II: Peanuts - Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to establish for the 1986 through 1989 peanut crops: (1) farm poundage quotas; (2) sale, lease, or transfer provisions; (3) marketing penalties; and (4) price support levels. Suspends specified marketing quota and acreage allotment provisions.
Title III: Miscellaneous - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to authorize the Secretary to make advance deficiency payments available to producers of 1986 through 1989 upland crops.
Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Voice Vote.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.
Committee on Agriculture requested executive comment from Agriculture Department.
Committee on Agriculture. Provisions of measure incorporated into measure S. 1714 ordered to be reported.
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