FOOD, AGRICULTURE, CONSERVATION, AND TRADE ACT

Bills and resolutions

Climate: provide for high-priority research and extension grants for natural climate solutions (see S. 3500), S5961 [13DE] (see H.R. 6811), H6984 [14DE]

Colleges and universities: modify areas of focus for centers of excellence at 1890 Land-Grant Educational Institutions (see S. 2058), S2145 [20JN] (see H.R. 4236), H3069 [21JN]

Dept. of Agriculture: authorize grants for eligible institutions to carry out agriculture workforce training programs (see S. 2341), S2984 [18JY] (see H.R. 4861), H3949 [25JY]

——— direct Agricultural Research Service to expand organic research (see S. 2317), S2460 [13JY] (see S. 2756), S4355 [11SE]

——— establish cacao tree health initiative (see H.R. 1454), H1205 [8MR]

——— establish competitive grant program to provide grants to land-grant colleges and universities to support agricultural producers in adopting conservation and innovative climate practices (see S. 900), S860 [21MR] (see H.R. 2719), H1886 [19AP]

——— establish floriculture and nursery plant health initiative (see H.R. 1426), H1149 [7MR]

——— establish research and extension grant priorities (see S. 2316), S2460 [13JY]

——— establish research centers of excellence for alternative protein innovation (see H.R. 5097), H4156 [1AU]

——— include additional priorities as research and extension initiatives (see H.R. 4162), H2957 [15JN]

——— include as high-priority research and extension area research on microplastics in land-applied biosolids on farmland (see H.R. 3871), H2762 [6JN]

——— include as high-priority research and extension initiative research and extension on precision agriculture workforce development (see H.R. 5459), H4344 [14SE]

——— include spotted lanternfly control research and development as high-priority research and extension intiative (see S. 1837), S2005 [7JN] (see H.R. 3867), H2762 [6JN]

——— modify and extend grants for assistive technology programs for farmers with disabilities (see H.R. 4586), H3477 [12JY]

——— modify macadamia tree health initiative (see S. 372), S312 [9FE] (see H.R. 966), H825 [9FE]

——— provide research and extension grants to combat plant pests and noxious weeds that impact coffee plants (see S. 371), S312 [9FE] (see H.R. 965), H825 [9FE]

——— provide research and extension grants to support study of insects and pests that impact plantains and bananas (see H.R. 1455), H1205 [8MR]

——— reauthorize distance learning and telemedicine grant program (see S. 2447), S3459 [20JY]

——— reauthorize Genome to Phenome Initiative (see H.R. 3905), H2778 [7JN]

Remarks in House

Dept. of Agriculture: include as high-priority research and extension area research on microplastics in land-applied biosolids on farmland, H4527 [26SE]

——— modify and extend grants for assistive technology programs for farmers with disabilities (H.R. 4586), H3862 [20JY]