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Specialty Crop Block Grant Program

1890s Institutions Charging Forth on Specialty Crop Projects through USDA Support

September 18, 2023 USDA Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs Jenny Lester Moffitt

With last month’s announcement of the 2023 Specialty Crop Block Grant awards, the program has reached a milestone of over $1 billion invested into projects to support the U.S. specialty crop industry. Since the program’s inception in 2006, 1890s land-grant universities throughout the country have...

Farming

The Specialty Crop Block Grant Program and Automation Explored

August 14, 2020 Jillian Kaplan, USDA Agricultural Marketing Service, Deanna Gierszewski, North Dakota Department of Agriculture and Josh Johnson, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services

U.S. specialty crop producers face a variety of challenges that require a diverse set of solutions. From labor shortages and rising production costs that threatened the health of Florida’s strawberry industry to water supply challenges that stymied North Dakota’s vegetable yields, the Specialty Crop...

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