H.R. 10411 — To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to consider certain acreage not planted due to a lack of irrigation water to be eligible for prevented planting payments, and for other purposes.

This section establishes eligibility for acreage prevented from planting under covered programs administered by the Farm Service Agency when producers reasonably expect insufficient irrigation water, the irrigation infrastructure is functional, the acres were irrigated and planted to the same crop in one of the prior four years, and the land does not support dryland farming. It reduces payments by 50 percent for the fifth through eighth consecutive crop years, by 75 percent for the ninth and tenth years, and by 100 percent thereafter, with permanent ineligibility after the eleventh year. It also revises regulations to treat drought at the irrigation source as a qualifying condition and to require consultation with Farm Service Agency county committees and State technical committees for disaster determinations.