Specialty Crop Domestic Market Promotion and Development Program Act of 2025
Specialty Crop Domestic Market Promotion and Development Program Act of 2025
Plain Language Summary
# Summary of HR 5059: Specialty Crop Domestic Market Promotion and Development Program Act of 2025 **What the Bill Does:** This bill would create a new federal grant program to help boost domestic sales of specialty crops—fruits, vegetables, and similar agricultural products grown in the United States. The grants would fund promotional activities like advertising campaigns designed to increase American consumer demand for these products. **Who It Affects:** The bill targets agricultural organizations, cooperatives, state agencies, and certain private companies that promote U.S. specialty crops. Farmers and producers of fruits and vegetables would benefit indirectly through increased market demand.
American consumers might see more promotional campaigns for domestic specialty crops. **Key Provisions:** Eligible organizations must focus on promoting U.S.-grown specialty crops without directly profiting from those sales themselves (in most cases). The program would be managed by the Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service. The bill is currently in committee and has not yet been voted on by the full House.
CRS Official Summary
Specialty Crop Domestic Market Promotion and Development Program Act of 2025This bill directs the Agricultural Marketing Service to establish a grant program to encourage the development, maintenance, and expansion of the commercial domestic market for domestically produced specialty crop commodities (e.g., for advertising or other demand-oriented, generic domestic promotion activities).Organizations eligible for the grant program include those that promote U.S. produced and grown specialty crop sales and are (1) U.S. agricultural trade organizations or regional state-related organizations that do not profit directly from U.S. specialty crop sales, (2) cooperative organizations or state agencies, or (3) certain private organizations. Specialty crop organizations operating under federal marketing orders are also eligible for the grant program.
Latest Action
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.