H.R. 5097 explained · 119th Congress · Pending in Congress
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.
Cosponsors: 8 (7 D, 1 R) · per Congress.gov, 2026-10-11
Introduced: 2025-09-02
Latest action (2025-09-02): Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
What H.R. 5097 does, in plain terms
This bill directs the Agricultural Marketing Service to establish a grant program for commercial specialty crop producers to acquire equipment and provide related training. Funds must be used for mechanized or automated systems and tools that increase the efficiency of a task or reduce human labor for a specific activity (e.g., low-dust harvesting tools and equipment, sorting machines, and crop monitoring and analytics equipment and tools). The bill includes a minimum 50% cost-sharing requirement.
Official summary by the Congressional Research Service, via Congress.gov.
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