“From the outset, I think there was a sense that, finally, we were looking at standing up a program that was specific to specialty crop farmers. And that’s incredible, because … nothing trickles down for them, and so this was really one of the first efforts to be able to do that,”
On the recordJuly 24, 2026
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Discussing the Farm Recovery and Support Block Grant program
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