Ensuring Disaster Recovery and Resilience for Specialty Crops Act
Sponsored By: Senator Schiff, Adam B. [D-CA]
Introduced
Summary
This bill would create a permanent federal program to provide direct emergency payments to specialty crop producers after adverse events, focusing on permanent disaster assistance for specialty crops.
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- Specialty crop producers would be eligible for direct assistance calculated by applying a payment factor to a base amount tied to a producer's prior-year sales or an average of prior years. The Secretary of Agriculture would set the payment factor and award payments subject to available funds.
- Payment limits would generally follow the per-person cap in the Food Security Act, with a carve-out for entities whose average gross income is at least 75 percent from farming, ranching, or silviculture. For those entities the general cap would not apply and the Secretary would set a maximum payment that cannot be less than $500,000.
- The Secretary must consider three specific factors when awarding payments: the higher market value of specialty crops, their greater input costs, and the mix of legal entity types used by specialty-crop producers. The bill also folds the new Section 197 into existing payment limitation and notification rules under the Food Security Act.
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
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Direct payments for specialty growers
This bill would require the Secretary of Agriculture to create a permanent program paying specialty-crop producers when an adverse event harms production, as the Secretary defines. You would be eligible if your specialty-crop production was impacted by an adverse event the Secretary determines. Payments would equal your prior-year specialty-crop sales (or an average of prior years) multiplied by a payment factor the Secretary sets, subject to available funds. Usual per-person and per-entity payment limits in 7 U.S.C. 1308 would apply, but entities with at least 75 percent of average gross income from farming, ranching, or silviculture would be exempt from that general cap and instead receive a Secretary-set per-year cap that could not be less than $500,000. Sections 1001A(a), 1001B, and 1001C would apply to these payments in the same way they apply to covered commodities.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Schiff, Adam B. [D-CA]
CA • D
Cosponsors
Sen. Padilla, Alex [D-CA]
CA • D
Sponsored 6/2/2026
Sen. Slotkin, Elissa [D-MI]
MI • D
Sponsored 6/11/2026
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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