118th Congress Agriculture and Food
H.R. 4173: Advancing Automation Research and Development in Agriculture Act
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Summary
This bill directs the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to establish within USDA a stand-alone competitive research and extension grant program to increase the competitiveness of specialty crops in the United States through the advancement and acceleration of mechanization and automation. Specialty crops are fruits and vegetables, tree nuts, dried fruits, and horticulture and nursery crops (including floriculture).
The bill provides specified funds for FY2024 and each succeeding year to carry out the program.
The grant program includes projects that
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- create or improve cost-effective technologies to reduce a specialty crop grower's manual labor requirements and increase the efficiency of crop production, resource management, harvesting, processing, post-harvest technologies, and packaging;
- increase adoption of mechanization and automation technologies; and
- accelerate automation and mechanization through prototype development, in-field trial testing, ongoing industry engagement, and rapid commercialization.
Entities eligible for the grant program are federal agencies, national laboratories, colleges and universities, research institutions and organizations, private organizations and corporations, state agricultural experiment stations, individuals, and organizations representing specialty crop growers.
Written by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.
Roll calls
No roll call votes have been held on this bill.
Amendments
No amendments were offered to this bill.
Cosponsors
- Salud Carbajal D-CAOriginal
- Max Miller R-OHOriginal
- Abigail Spanberger D-VAOriginal
- Yadira Caraveo D-CO
- Lori Chavez-DeRemer R-OR
- John Duarte R-CA
- Josh Harder D-CA
- David Valadao R-CA
- Jonathan Jackson D-IL
- Katherine Cammack R-FL
- Jim Costa D-CA
- Chellie Pingree D-ME
- Jimmy Panetta D-CA
- Jill Tokuda D-HI
- Andrea Salinas D-OR
- Marie Gluesenkamp Perez D-WA
- Kathy Manning D-NC
- Julia Brownley D-CA
Who scored on this bill
- 1Doug LaMalfa SponsorDrew cross-party cosponsors, introduced2 events+6
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History
- Introduced in the House by Doug LaMalfa.
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- Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology.
- Introduced in House
- Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.