S 910referred119th Congress

Farm Ownership Improvement Act

Introduced Mar 10, 2025Senate billPolicy area: Agriculture and FoodLast action Mar 10, 2025Sponsor: Peter Welch(D-VT)

agricultureAgriculture and Food

Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee

Ask about this Build timeline Compare Export source pack

Official Congress record Open in Network Lab Trace connections

Official summaryUpdated Mar 10, 2025

What the bill does

Farm Ownership Improvement Act This bill directs the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to establish a pilot program to implement a pre-qualification or pre-approval process for farmers and ranchers for direct farm ownership loans. As background, the Farm Service Agency Direct Loan Program provides Farm Ownership Loans to farmers and ranchers for the purchase and development of farm property. Under the five-year pilot program, USDA must prioritize outreach to organizations that have demonstrated engagement with beginning farmers or ranchers. In addition, USDA may make use of alternative methods, including financial benchmarking, to reliably evaluate the financial viability of a participant in the pilot program and the likelihood of repayment of the applicable loan. USDA must submit an annual report to Congress on the pilot program, which must include a description of the program's performance outcomes and a recommendation as to the pilot program's value.

Latest official action

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

Lobbying Filings Citing It

$280.0K

Reported on Those Filings, All Issues

Lobbying Clients

Recorded Votes

Timeline

Mar 10, 2025bill

Bill introduced

Apr 21, 2025lobbying

Lobbying filed by FARMERS EDUCATIONAL COOPERATIVE UNION OF AMERICA

Apr 21, 2025lobbying

Lobbying filed by SCOTT'S MIRACLE-GRO

Jul 21, 2025lobbying

Lobbying filed by SCOTT'S MIRACLE-GRO

Jul 21, 2025lobbying

Lobbying filed by FARMERS EDUCATIONAL COOPERATIVE UNION OF AMERICA

Jul 21, 2025lobbying

Official Congressional Actions

Mar 10, 2025IntroReferral

Introduced in Senate

View official action

Mar 10, 2025IntroReferral

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee

View official action

Lobbying Activity

Registrant	Client	Amount	Filed	Period	Issues
FARMERS EDUCATIONAL COOPERATIVE UNION OF AMERICA	FARMERS EDUCATIONAL COOPERATIVE UNION OF AMERICA	$80.0K	Apr 21, 2025	2025Q1	AGRBUDENV
FULCRUM PUBLIC AFFAIRS LLC	SCOTT'S MIRACLE-GRO	$60.0K	Jul 21, 2025	2025Q2	BANTAXENV
FARMERS EDUCATIONAL COOPERATIVE UNION OF AMERICA

About this page

The lobbying table lists Senate LDA quarterly reports (LD-2) that cite this bill by number and cover a quarter of the 119th Congress. An LD-2 names a bill as “H.R. 1234” with no Congress, so a report on another Congress, which can only concern a different bill with the same number, is left out, even when it was filed after this Congress began. The amount is what the registrant reported for the whole filing, across every issue on it, not spending on this bill. Official actions and the bill summary come from Congress.gov, and votes from the roll-call record. This page no longer pairs the bill with members' stock trades: matching lobbying clients to traded companies by name, and trades to a bill by date, is not something the records establish.