$5.45 billion in market loss payments to farmers, an amount equal to payments for FY 2000;

$500 million to oilseed producers;

$59.45 million for Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) reserve fund and the inspection reserve;

$200 million to purchase specialty crops that experienced low prices in the 1998 and 1999 crop years, including apples, black-eyed peas, cherries, citrus, cranberries, onions, melons, peaches, potatoes and others;

$25 million to compensate growers for losses resulting from plum pox virus, Pierce’s disease and canker;

$47 million to both peanut quota growers and "additional" growers;

$340 million to tobacco growers;

Recourse loan for honey producers on the 2000 crop of honey at 85% of the average price of honey during the preceding five crop years;

Payments to wool producers of $0.20 per pound and mohair producers of $0.40 per pound for the 1999 marketing year; and

$100 million to producers and first handlers of cottonseed.

$10 million for the Farmland Protection Program; conservation organizations are allowed to hold easements in those states that do not have a state defined farmland protection program; and

$40 million to provide soil, water and natural resource conservation assistance to farmers in the form of cost share or incentive payments;

$15 million in FY 2001 to the Consortium for Agricultural Soils Mitigation of Greenhouse Gases for carbon cycle research at the national, regional and local levels;

$3 million in FY 2001 for research on the extraction and purification of proteins from genetically altered tobacco that can be used as a vaccine for cervical cancer;

Provides a grant to the University of Nebraska for laboratories and equipment for research on soil science and forest health and management;

$3.5 million to expand research related to livestock production waste streams;

$5 million in FY 2001 for USDA to review and assess potential problems associated with livestock and poultry waste management systems

$14 million to USDA for the construction of a corn-based ethanol research pilot plant

$15 million to award competitive grants to eligible producers for the purpose of facilitating greater participation in markets for value-added agricultural commodities;

Directs USDA to purchase an additional $34 million of food commodities in FY 2000 and another $21 million of food commodities in FY 2001 for distribution to schools participating in the National School Lunch Program;

Requires USDA to make a loan in the amount of $10 million to the Texas Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation;

$7 million in FY 2001 for pseudorabies vaccination costs incurred by pork producers;

$6 million in FY 2001 on bovine tuberculosis in Michigan;

Increases the authorization from $20 million to $30 million for waste and wastewater systems for rural and native villages in Alaska;

Compensation to producers for the loss of crop land or pastureland due to unusual flooding;

Authorizes within USDA $49 million for each of fiscal years 2000 through 2005, and provides appropriated for biomass research and development under the general authority of the Secretary of Energy to establish a Biomass Research and Development Initiative; and