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Specialty Crops: 2008 Farm Bill Issues (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date Revised Jan. 13, 2009
Report Number RL33520
Report Type Report
Authors Jean M. Rawson, Resources, Science, and Industry Division
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
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Summary:

Several major legislative proposals focusing on policies and programs ofimportance to the specialty crop sector have been introduced in the 110th Congressin preparation for the 2007 farm bill debate. These bills include H.R. 1600(Cardoza), the EAT Healthy America Act; H.R. 1551 (Kind)/S. 919 (Menendez), theHealthy Farms, Foods, and Fuels Act; S. 541 (Feingold), the Rural OpportunitiesAct; S. 1160 (Stabenow), the Specialty Crops Competition Act; and H.R. 2144(DeLauro). The Administration also proposed several policy reforms affectingspecialty crops as part of the comprehensive 2007 farm bill proposal that it releasedin February 2007. Finally, a number of stakeholder groups have issued position statements concerning the specialty crops issues they would like to see addressed inthe next farm bill.