Political Quotes

“The horticulture marketing and regulatory reform title provides critical investments to enhance the competitiveness of specialty crops and protect plant health. It delivers commonsense regulatory reforms necessary to relieve American farmers and ranchers from overregulation by the Biden administration. It provides additional funding for the specialty crop block grant program and directs program administrators to consult with specialty crop producers when setting priorities for the program. It increases funding for plant, pest, and disease management to further safeguard American agriculture and natural resources. It maintains funding for the local agriculture market program and approves program delivery through simplified application. It continues support for organic production through the national organic program, organic production, and the market data initiative and the national organic certification cost-share program. Agricultural producers are greatly affected by numerous factors outside of their control, ranging from extreme weather to geopolitical instability. Crop insurance, a vital risk management tool, is available to help producers manage the unique risks of farming and is delivered through an effective public-private partnership in which the Federal Government shares in the cost of the premiums, which would otherwise be unaffordable for most farmers.…”