Specialty crop growers stressed their needs for the 2023 Farm Bill during a U.S. Senate subcommittee hearing Wednesday.
Charles Wingard is Vice President of Field Operations for his family’s fresh vegetable operation Walter P. Rawl which farms across South Carolina, Florida, Pennsylvania, and Michigan, and testified on behalf of the International Fresh Produce Association.
“Our industry represents 44 percent of the total US farm crop income, however, our support in the current farm bill is only 2.1 billion or 3.5 percent of the total crop expenditures in the farm bill,” he shares.
Specialty crop growers say farm bill is woefully short
