Agriculture Committee, Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology Subcommittee
Introduced
In Committee
On Floor
Passed Chamber
Enacted
Guaranteeing Robust Agricultural Independence and Nutrition for America Act or the GRAIN for America Act This bill establishes a one-year moratorium on the enrollment of land in the Conservation Reserve Program, with a specified exception for land that is already subject to a contract under the program. It also prohibits the Department of Agriculture from enrolling prime farmland in the program. Additionally, the bill allows a participant who has entered into a contract under the program to terminate the contract at any time during the one-year period preceding the date on which the contact would expire.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology.
Agriculture and Food
Agricultural conservation and pollutionFarmland
GRAIN for America Act
USA118th CongressHR-3779| House
| Updated: 7/10/2023
Guaranteeing Robust Agricultural Independence and Nutrition for America Act or the GRAIN for America Act This bill establishes a one-year moratorium on the enrollment of land in the Conservation Reserve Program, with a specified exception for land that is already subject to a contract under the program. It also prohibits the Department of Agriculture from enrolling prime farmland in the program. Additionally, the bill allows a participant who has entered into a contract under the program to terminate the contract at any time during the one-year period preceding the date on which the contact would expire.