Protecting Mushroom Farmers Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
The Protecting Mushroom Farmers Act directs the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation to develop insurance options for mushroom growing media and mushroom production. FCIC must carry out research and development itself or contract with qualified persons. The research must evaluate policies based on risks from pests such as mushroom phorid flies and sciarid flies, fungal pathogens, viral pathogens, electricity losses due to weather, and losses of growing media from excessive 5-year, 10-year, or 20-year rainfall events. If the policy meets section 508(h) requirements, FCIC must make it available notwithstanding ordinary limitations. The bill is tailored to mushroom growers' specific production risks, especially compost and controlled-environment vulnerabilities that do not fit conventional row-crop insurance well.
Who Benefits and How
Mushroom farmers benefit because federal crop insurance research would address production and growing-media losses specific to their farms. Mushroom compost producers benefit because growing media becomes an explicit insurance-development subject. Specialty crop insurers benefit from federal research into actuarially workable mushroom policies. Farm lenders benefit if mushroom operations gain better insurance options against pests, pathogens, electricity loss, and heavy rainfall.
Who Bears the Burden and How
The Federal Crop Insurance Corporation must conduct or contract for mushroom insurance research and development. Risk Management Agency staff must evaluate whether resulting policies meet section 508(h) requirements. Federal taxpayers may bear subsidy and administrative costs if new mushroom insurance policies are approved. Insurance developers must model unusual mushroom risks such as phorid flies, sciarid flies, pathogens, power outages, and rainfall-driven media losses.
Key Provisions
- Requires FCIC research and development on mushroom growing media insurance.
- Requires FCIC research and development on mushroom production insurance.
- Directs evaluation of pest, fungal, viral, electricity, and excessive-rainfall risks.
- Requires the policy to be made available if section 508(h) requirements are met.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Requires the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation to research and develop crop insurance for mushroom growing media and mushroom production, including pest, pathogen, weather-related electricity, and heavy-rainfall losses.
Key Policy Areas
Agriculture, Crop Insurance, Specialty Crops
Primary Purpose
Requires the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation to research and develop crop insurance for mushroom growing media and mushroom production, including pest, pathogen, weather-related electricity, and heavy-rainfall losses.
Policy Domains
Resolution provisions
Identified Gains
- Mushroom farmers
- Mushroom compost producers
- Specialty crop insurers
- Farm lenders
Identified Costs
- Federal Crop Insurance Corporation
- Risk Management Agency staff
- Federal taxpayers
- Insurance developers
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeReferred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, Risk Management, …
Ms. Houlahan (for herself and Mr. Meuser) introduced the following …
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Introduced in House
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