HR 5097
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.
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.
Bill status
- Status
- In committee
- Sponsor
- Rep. David G. Valadao [R-CA-22]
- Cosponsors
- 8
- Policy area
- Agriculture and Food
- Introduced
- 2025-09-02
- Latest action
- 2025-09-02: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Committee referrals
Recent actions
- 2025-09-02: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
- 2025-09-02: Introduced in House
- 2025-09-02: Introduced in House