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Dairy Farm Resiliency Act

To amend the Agricultural Act of 2014 with respect to the dairy margin coverage program, and for other purposes.

Introduced Jan 9, 2025

Latest action (Feb 14, 2025) Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, Risk Management, and Credit.

Referred to
Agriculture Committee
Policy area
Agriculture and Food
Issues
Economy & Taxes

Summary
  • Amends the Agricultural Act of 2014 to modify the dairy margin coverage program.
  • Changes the production history requirement from a specific three-year period to the most recent three-year history, recalculated every five years.
  • Increases the Tier I threshold from 5,000,000 to 6,000,000 pounds of milk.
  • Increases the Tier II threshold from 5,000,000 to 6,000,000 pounds of milk.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
6 cosponsors

Money behind the sponsor

Top reported contributors to Nicholas A. Langworthy’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.

  • BLACKSTONE $25,217
  • CORNING $15,255
  • FREY ELECTRIC CONSTRUCTION CO. $13,800
  • ST. PAULY TEXTILE $13,200
  • CRYSTAL WINDOW AND DOOR SYSTEMS, LTD $13,200

Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Nicholas A. Langworthy → · Outside spending →

Actions (4)
  1. Feb 14, 2025 Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, Risk Management, and Credit. · house
  2. Feb 14, 2025 Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry. · house
  3. Jan 9, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture. · house
  4. Jan 9, 2025 Introduced in House

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • S 211 — Resiliency for Ranching and Natural Conservation Health Act · Introduced Jan 23, 2025 · Cong. 119 74%
  • HR 4513 — Resiliency for Ranching and Natural Conservation Health Act · Introduced Jul 17, 2025 · Cong. 119 73%
  • HR 5372 — Dairy Market Enhancement Act of 2000 · Introduced Oct 10, 2000 · Cong. 106 72%
  • HR 2435 — Save Our Small Farms Act of 2025 · Introduced Apr 18, 2025 · Cong. 119 71%
  • HR 985 — To amend the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 to reauthorize the dairy business innovation initiatives. · Introduced Mar 14, 2025 · Cong. 119 70%
  • HR 442 — Quality Loss Adjustment Improvement for Farmers Act · Introduced Feb 14, 2025 · Cong. 119 70%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Jan 9, 2025

Only one text version is on file, so there’s no earlier version to compare against yet.

Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

January 9, 2025

Mr. Langworthy (for himself, Mr. Van Orden, and Mr. Courtney) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture

A BILL

To amend the Agricultural Act of 2014 with respect to the dairy margin coverage program, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the “Dairy Farm Resiliency Act”.

SEC. 2. DAIRY MARGIN COVERAGE PROGRAM.

(a) Production History.—Section 1405(a)(1) of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 9055(a)(1)) is amended by striking “during any one of the 2011, 2012, or 2013 calendar years” and inserting “in the most recent three-year history, as calculated once every five years”.

(b) Premiums for Dairy Margins.—

(1) Tier i.—Section 1407(b) of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 9057(b)) is amended—

(A) in the heading, by striking “5,000,000” and inserting “6,000,000”; and

(B) in paragraph (1), by striking “5,000,000” and inserting “6,000,000”.

(2) Tier ii.—Section 1407(c) of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 9057(c)) is amended—

(A) in the heading, by striking “5,000,000” and inserting “6,000,000”; and

(B) in paragraph (1), by striking “5,000,000” and inserting “6,000,000”. <all>

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