Local Food and Farm Support Act

To promote expanded economic opportunities for farmers and ranchers through local and regional markets, expand access to healthy food in underserved communities, provide access to locally and regionally grown food for schools, institutions, and consumers, and strengthen rural-urban linkages, and for other purposes.

5/17/2007--Introduced.
Local Food and Farm Support Act - Amends the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a grant program to support value-added agricultural products which shall include a socially disadvantaged farmer and rancher component and may include a small and individual producer grant component. Directs the Secretary to establish a Family Rancher and Rancher Viability and Innovation Fund. Amends the Specialty Crops Competitiveness Act of 2004 to direct the Secretary, through the Agricultural Marketing Service, to:
(1) establish a grant program for eligible entities to conduct enterprise feasibility studies, including studies of consumer preference; and
(2) provide loans and loan guarantees to eligible entities and individual producers to develop processing, distribution, and information infrastructure for locally or regionally produced food. Amends the Farmers-to-Consumers Direct Marketing Act of 1976 to direct the Secretary to carry out a direct to consumer marketing assistance program to make grants to eligible entities for projects to establish, expand, and promote farmers' markets and other farmer to consumer direct marketing opportunities. Extends:
(1) the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) farmers' market nutrition program;
(2) the senior farmers' market nutrition program;
(3) the food stamp community food project program; and
(4) the farm-to cafeteria program. Establishes:
(1) the food stamp fruit and vegetable incentive program; and
(2) the urban agriculture production program.


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Sponsor

• Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D, OR-3]
• and 20 Co-Sponsors
  • Rep. Thomas Allen [D, ME-1]
  • Rep. Nancy Boyda [D, KS-2]
  • Rep. John Conyers [D, MI-14]
  • Rep. Artur Davis [D, AL-7]
  • Rep. Peter DeFazio [D, OR-4]
  • Rep. Keith Ellison [D, MN-5]
  • Rep. Anna Eshoo [D, CA-14]
  • Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand [D, NY-20]
  • Rep. Phil Hare [D, IL-17]
  • Rep. Rush Holt [D, NJ-12]
  • Rep. Steve Kagen [D, WI-8]
  • Rep. Marcy Kaptur [D, OH-9]
  • Rep. Dennis Kucinich [D, OH-10]
  • Rep. James McDermott [D, WA-7]
  • Rep. Michael McNulty [D, NY-21]
  • Rep. Donald Payne [D, NJ-10]
  • Rep. Bobby Rush [D, IL-1]
  • Rep. Janice Schakowsky [D, IL-9]
  • Rep. Peter Welch [D, VT-0]
  • Rep. Lynn Woolsey [D, CA-6]
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Committees

• House Agriculture
• 7 more
  • House Agriculture
  • House Agriculture
  • House Education and Labor
  • House Agriculture
  • House Agriculture
  • House Agriculture
  • House Education and Labor
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Amendments

This bill has no amendments.

Amendments to H.R.2364

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Introduced		Voted on by House		Voted on by Senate		Considered By President		Bill Becomes Law
May 17, 2007

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• Jul 17, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
• Jun 26, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Specialty Crops, Rural Development, and Foreign Agriculture.
• Jun 26, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Horticulture and Organic Agriculture.
• Jun 26, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research.
• Jun 26, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
• Jun 26, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
• Jun 06, 2007: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H6012)
• May 22, 2007: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H5535)
• May 17, 2007: Referred to House Education and Labor
• May 17, 2007: Referred to House Agriculture
• May 17, 2007: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
• May 17, 2007: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1078)
• Introduced on May 17, 2007.

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Related Issue Areas:

• Agriculture
• Aged
• Agribusiness
• Agricultural credit
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• Agricultural subsidies
• Budgets
• Business
• Children
• Congressional reporting requirements
• Economic policy
• Education
• Elementary and secondary education
• Families
• Family farms
• Farmers
• Federally-guaranteed loans
• Finance
• Food
• Food stamps
• Fruit
• Gardening
• Government lending
• Marketing of farm produce
• Minorities
• Minority business enterprises
• Produce trade
• Rural affairs
• Rural economic development
• School lunch program
• Small business
• Urban affairs
• Urban areas
• Vegetables
• WIC program
• Welfare
• Women

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