Economic assistance for sugar beet producers

(a) In general (1) Block grants From the amounts appropriated under subsection (c), the Secretary shall make block grants to sugar beet cooperatives to carry out economic assistance payments in accordance with paragraph (2). (2) Use of funds A sugar beet cooperative that receives a block grant under paragraph (1) may only use the grant funds to make payments to members of such cooperative that are sugar beet producers for the economic losses incurred by such producers during the 2025 crop year for sugar beets. (b) Payments In carrying out the block grants under subsection (a)(1), the Secretary shall— (1) establish, in consultation with sugar beet cooperatives, a per-acre payment rate for purposes of determining the amount and allocation of such block grants; and (2) reduce from the amount of a block grant to a sugar beet cooperative, as determined under paragraph (1), the total amount of assistance each member of such cooperative that is a sugar beet producer received for the 2025 crop year under the Farmer Bridge Assistance Program of the Department of Agriculture as described in the press release of the Department of Agriculture on December 8, 2025 (Release No. 0239.25). (c) Appropriation There is appropriated to the Secretary to carry out this section $330,000,000.