Balanced Agricultural Support and Efficiency Act
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- House
- Sponsors
- 2
- Latest action
- Dec 2, 2025
What it does
The Balanced Agricultural Support and Efficiency Act would require a one-time update of base acres for covered commodities on farms to reflect recent planting history from the 2020 through 2024 crop years, ensuring that support payments align with actual agricultural activity. The bill amends the Agricultural Act of 2014 by redefining base acres and mandating that the Secretary of Agriculture update them using a five-year average that includes both planted acreage and acreage prevented from planting due to natural disasters or other uncontrollable conditions. It also makes conforming changes to related provisions, such as payment yields, payment acres, and price loss coverage, to remove…
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