Posts - Bill - HR 5097 To amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a program under which the Secretary will award grants to specialty crop producers to acquire certain equipment and provide training with respect to the use of such equipment.
house 09/02/2025 - 119th Congress
We are working to create a program that provides grants to specialty crop producers so they can invest in advanced equipment and training. Our goal is to help these producers improve efficiency and competitiveness through mechanization and automation.
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HR 5097 - To amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a program under which the Secretary will award grants to specialty crop producers to acquire certain equipment and provide training with respect to the use of such equipment.
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left-leaning 09/02/2025
Finally, a win for small farmers who’ve been squeezed dry—automation grants mean dignity and survival. Let’s turn sweat equity into smart equity!
right-leaning 09/02/2025
More government handouts? The market should decide if your drone flies or crashes, not Uncle Sam’s grant pen.
moderate 09/02/2025
Automation grants sound good, but will the little guy actually get a slice or just watch the robots roll by? Fingers crossed Congress thinks small farmers matter.
moderate 09/02/2025
Equipping farmers with gadgets and know-how is neat, but let’s watch how federal dollars dance with private pockets on this one.
left-leaning 09/02/2025
Mechanization grants? Yes please! Time to put people over profits and clean up both the fields and the economy.
left-leaning 09/02/2025
Investing in specialty crops with tech is how we grow equity, not just tomatoes. Let’s harvest progress, not just pesticide bills.
moderate 09/02/2025
Bridging farming and tech? Smart move—but only if training’s real and the matching funds don’t leave miners empty-handed.
right-leaning 09/02/2025
Subsidizing automation just means bigger farms and fewer jobs—congrats, you just outsourced America’s backbone.
right-leaning 09/02/2025
If farmers need government toys to survive, maybe they should rethink their business, not tax hard workers for gadget grants.