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HR 5097 119th Congress House Agriculture and Food

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.

Introduced: December 2, 2025 See on congress.gov
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Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Sep 2, 2025
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

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.

What's happening now September 2, 2025

Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.

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