To amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a program under which the Secretary will award grants to specialty crop producers to acquire certain equipment and provide training with respect to the use of such equipment.

United States118th CongressHR-5062House of Representatives
Updated: Sep 19, 2023

Summary

This bill directs the Agricultural Marketing Service to establish a grant program for commercial specialty crop producers to acquire equipment and provide related training. Funds must be used for mechanized or automated systems and tools that increase the efficiency of a task or reduce human labor for a specific activity (e.g., low-dust harvesting tools and equipment, sorting machines, and crop monitoring and analytics equipment and tools). The bill includes a minimum 50% cost-sharing requirement.

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Timeline

  1. Introduced in House

  2. Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.

    House of Representatives

  3. Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition, Foreign Agriculture, and Horticulture.

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