Source: Chuck Abbott, SUCCESSFUL FARMING, 5/3/21


Sen. Cory Booker, the new chairman of the Senate nutrition subcommittee, called for a permanent food box program to deliver fresh fruits and vegetables to communities “in desperate need for healthy produce.” Booker also said $20 billion a year should be devoted to USDA climate mitigation programs and that a moratorium should be imposed on mergers in the agricultural sector. “As you know, I am chairman now of the subcommittee on nutrition and specialty crops, and I’m bringing it,” Booker said at the North American Agricultural Journalists meeting on Friday.

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