What is the Federal Food Security Act?

The Food Security Act of 1985 is designed to prevent the conversion of wetlands into non-wetland areas. All the features of the Act are alternatively also referred to as the “Swampbuster” provisions. While establishing a dairy herd buyout program, the act also provisioned for lower commodity prices and income support for farmers. 

The Federal farm program benefits are made inaccessible to farm producers who have converted wetlands into cultivable lands after December 23, 1985. Inadvertent violations were considered through the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 where farmers gain access to all lost benefits if the converted wetlands are restored to original conditions.

                       

The Federal government is allowed to get into contracts with agricultural producers for removing highly erodible cropland from production in exchange for annual rentals. Wetlands, converted wetlands, highly erodible lands and agricultural lands are the natural resources governed by the Act.

The benefits denied to a producer, who has cultivated agricultural commodity on converted wetlands are as follows:

 commodity price support or production adjustment payments;

·         farm storage facility loans;

·         disaster payments;

·         payments for storage of grain owned or controlled by the Commodity Credit Corporation;

     Federal crop insurance; and

 FMHA loans

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