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The bill expands and funds outreach, climate-resilience, and diversification assistance to help farmers stabilize income and manage risk, but it creates fiscal costs and implementation uncertainties—most notably an unclear payment cap and a risk that insurer involvement could shift focus away from direct producer services.
Farmers and agricultural workers gain support to stabilize farm income through production and marketing diversification (marketing plans, value-added processing, storage/drying, organic transition, food safety).
Farmers, agricultural workers, and approved crop insurance providers gain expanded outreach: education, technical assistance, and language translation services to implement diversified risk-management practices.
Producers—particularly in rural communities—can receive assistance for soil health, water/irrigation, perennial crops, agroforestry, livestock integration, and composting to reduce climate-related production risk.
Farmers and agricultural workers face uncertainty because a numeric placeholder error leaves the revised payment cap (per 5-year period) unclear, making it hard to know maximum payment limits.
Including approved crop insurance providers as assistance recipients could shift program focus toward insurance products instead of direct, on-farm outreach, potentially reducing effectiveness of producer-facing services.
Expanding eligible activities and adding annual appropriations increases federal spending, which may raise taxpayer costs or crowd out other priorities.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Expands who can receive federal crop insurance education and technical assistance, adds language translation services, broadens the kinds of conservation and risk-management technical help allowed, and provides new dedicated funding. Changes include explicitly adding approved crop insurance providers as outreach recipients, adding translation to outreach activities, expanding eligible technical assistance topics (soil health, irrigation, perennial crops, agroforestry, livestock integration, composting, and marketing/financial diversification), and authorizing additional appropriations of $20 million each fiscal year starting in 2026. Also revises limits and funding language for existing programs (including a corrected $30,000,000 clause), changes how payment caps are applied to a 5-year period (the text contains an apparent numeric placeholder error for the new cap), and excludes other federal funds from counting toward that cap.
Introduced March 12, 2026 by Christopher Murphy · Last progress March 12, 2026