USDA to update livestock compensation quarterly based on real market prices
H.R. 4322 — Livestock Indemnity Program Improvement Act of 2025 · Filed by Randy Feenstra (R-IA) · 1 cosponsor · Introduced Jul 10, 2025 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill requires the Secretary of Agriculture to update Livestock Indemnity Program payment rates every quarter based on current market prices, working with the Agricultural Marketing Service. Currently, payment rates are static; this change ties them to real-time market conditions so farmers receive indemnity payments that reflect what livestock is actually worth.
Why we flagged it
The bill updates the mechanics of an existing federal indemnity program to tie payments to current market data rather than static rates. It is a technical improvement to how a longstanding agricultural support program operates, not a new entitlement or carve-out.
What the text implies
- Quarterly updates may increase administrative burden on USDA and Agricultural Marketing Service, requiring more frequent data collection and rate recalculation.
- More frequent rate adjustments could create volatility in farmer expectations and program costs if market prices fluctuate sharply between quarters.
- The bill does not specify how the Secretary should handle extreme price swings or whether there are caps/floors on rate changes, leaving implementation discretion to the agency.
Section numbers refer to the bill text the analysis read — linked under Primary records below.
Who it affects
Farmers who suffer livestock losses receive indemnity payments that better reflect current market conditions rather than outdated or static rates, improving the accuracy and timeliness of federal compensation. The bill imposes no new restrictions on citizens and creates no new costs.
Who stands to gain
- livestock farmers and ranchers (primary beneficiaries of indemnity payments)
Named in the bill
Secretary of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service, Livestock Indemnity Program, Agricultural Act of 2014, Section 1501(b)(2)
Where it stands
1 cosponsor: 1 Democrats.
- Jul 10, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jul 10, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Agriculture · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 lobbying clients named this bill on 1 disclosure filings across 1 quarter, Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. Those filings disclosed $112,137 in lobbying spend. A filing names 109 bills on average, so that figure is what each filing reported, not a share belonging to this bill.
More lobbying clients named this bill than 0% of bills with at least one filing.
Randy Feenstra, the sponsor, reported $570,750 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.
- Paralyzed Veterans of America — $112,137 on 1 filing
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings through Jul 17, 2026. A filing shows who paid to lobby on a bill it names, not what changed.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (785 characters) on Jun 8, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,222 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 17, 2026 · page rendered 2026-10-20.
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