To amend the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to improve assistance for socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers and veteran farmers and ranchers, and for other purposes.
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Latest Action · July 19, 2023
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
This bill reauthorizes and improves federal grant programs that provide training and assistance to socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers, as well as veteran and beginning farmers and ranchers. The legislation extends the funding authorization for these outreach programs through 2028 and adds new requirements for interpretation and translation services to help farmers with limited English proficiency access Department of Agriculture programs and technical assistance. The bill also establishes new transparency requirements, directing the Secretary of Agriculture to compile and report detailed data every five years on farm program participation, loan guarantees, and disaster assistance, broken down by the race, ethnicity, and gender of farmers and ranchers to help identify disparities in how federal agricultural support is distributed. These changes aim to ensure that underrepresented groups in farming have better access to government resources and that the public can track whether assistance is being distributed fairly across different populations.
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