Best case scenario

What the industry would like to be the produce title of the farm bill has been unveiled. Here is the link to the United press release on the EAT Healthy America Act.

An excerpt:

United Fresh Produce Association endorsed the Equitable Agriculture Today for a Healthy America Act (EAT Healthy America Act), which was introduced Tuesday morning by U.S. Rep. Dennis Cardoza (D-CA), Randy Kuhl (R-NY), Rep. John Salazar (D-CO), Rep. Adam Putnam (R-FL), Rep. Rick Larsen (D-WA), and Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and included numerous co-sponsors.
United Fresh, which serves on the Steering Committee of the Specialty Crop Farm Bill Alliance (SCFBA), helped develop a series of farm bill priorities found in the EAT Healthy America Act. The SCFBA is a national coalition of more than 100 specialty crop organizations, working to forge mutual objectives for the 2007 Farm Bill and to assure a common platform across regions, commodities and other interests.


TK: One of the most impressive parts of the process has been the ongoing work of the specialty crop farm bill alliance. We will see how the Senate version differs from the House, but the EAT Healthy America Act is an appropriately ambitious bill that benchmarks the industry's best hopes for the 2007 farm bill.