,i  #aaeth ,,congress  #ast ,session    
,h4 ,r4 #dfed  ,,in ,,the ,,house ,,of  
,,representatives  ,december #ad1       
#bjag,mr4 ,cramer 7for himself1 ,mr4    
,loebsack1 ,mr4 ,emmer1 ,mrs4 ,noem1 and
 ,mr4 ,peterson7 introduced the         
following bill2 which was referred to   
the ,committee on ,agriculture  ,a      
,,bill  ,to amend the ,agricultural ,act
 of #bjad to require the ,secretary of  
,agriculture to use certain data in     
determining an actual or benchmark      
county yield1 and for other purposes4   
#a4 ,improvements to the ,agriculture   
,risk ,coverage ,program ,section       
#aaag7;g77#d7 of the ,agricultural ,act 
of #bjad 7#g ,u4,s4,c4 #ijag7;g77#d77 is
 amended to read as follows3  7#d7 in   
the case of county coverage-- 7,a7      
effective beginning with actual yields  
for the #bjag crop year1 assign an      
actual county yield for each planted    
acre for the crop year for the covered  
commodity--  7i7 for a county for which 
county data collected by the ,risk      

,management ,agency is sufficient1 as   
determined by the ,secretary1 to offer a
 county-wide insurance product using the
 actual average county yield determined 
by the ,risk ,management ,agency2 or    
7ii7 for a county not described in      
clause 7i7 using-- 7,i7 other sources of
 yield information 7including           
consultation with the applicable ,state 
office of the ,farm ,service ,agency72  
or  7,,ii7 the yield history of         
representative farms in the ,state1     
region1 or crop reporting district1 as  
determined by the ,secretary2  7,b7     
assign a benchmark county yield for a   
crop year using the actual county yield 
assigned in the prior crop year under   
subparagraph 7,a72 and  7,c7 make       
payments1 as applicable1 to producers   
using the payment rate of the county of 
the physical location of the base acres 
of a farm4  4