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 bill directs the Secretary of Agriculture to allow farmers to receive prevented planting payments for acres left unplanted due to a lack of irrigation water, provided specific conditions are met. To qualify, producers must have functional irrigation equipment, a history of irrigating and planting those acres in recent years, and land that is unsuitable for dryland farming. The bill also requires the Department of Agriculture to update regulations to clarify that drought at the source of an irrigation supply counts as a qualifying disaster. Payment amounts are reduced by 50 percent after five consecutive eligible years, by 75 percent after nine years, and become permanently ineligible after ten years.