WASHINGTON, July 27 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Food and Nutrition, Specialty Crops, Organics, and Research, and U.S. Senators Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.), and Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), all members of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, pushed, in a letter, for provisions in the upcoming Farm Bill that empower specialty crop farmers.
The Senators wrote to Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman John Boozman (R-Ark.) and Ranking Member Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), outlining the importance of working to produce a Farm Bill that includes improvements to economic assistance for specialty crop growers...