H.R. 7110 · 115th Congress
Specialty Crop Mechanization Prize Challenge of 2018
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This bill requires the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to establish a Specialty Crop Mechanization Challenges program to carry out prize competitions for the mechanization of specialty crop production. (Specialty crops are fruits and vegetables, tree nuts, dried fruits, and horticulture and nursery crops, including floriculture.)
What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in House · Oct 30, 2018
Specialty Crop Mechanization Prize Challenge of 2018
This bill requires the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to establish a Specialty Crop Mechanization Challenges program to carry out prize competitions for the mechanization of specialty crop production. (Specialty crops are fruits and vegetables, tree nuts, dried fruits, and horticulture and nursery crops, including floriculture.)
The program must include at least one prize competition for solutions to automate or alleviate stresses on the workforce during each of the following:
- the planting of specialty crops,
- tasks associated with the management of specialty crops,
- the harvesting of specialty crops, and
- processing and preparing specialty crops for distribution.
USDA must assemble prize committees to determine the scope, details, requirements, judging criteria, and incentives for each competition.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov
About this bill and sources
Official title: Specialty Crop Mechanization Prize Challenge of 2018
Latest action (Dec 12, 2018): Referred to the Subcommittee on Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research.
Policy area: Agriculture and Food · Origin: House · Introduced: Oct 30, 2018
Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)
No recorded floor vote found.