[MPWG] Press Release: Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to Announce New Support for America's Specialty Crop Producers (Oct. 2)

[De Angelis, Patricia]

Please see the press release below for an update from USDA on specialty
crops.

Patricia S. De Angelis, Ph.D.
Botanist, US Fish & Wildlife Service-Division of Scientific Authority
Chair, Plant Conservation Alliance-Medicinal Plant Working Group

*Media Advisory No. *0067.14


*Contact: USDA Office of Communications (202) 720-4623*

*Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to Announce New Support for America's
Specialty Crop Producers*

*2014 Farm Bill’s marquee specialty crop programs now providing funding*

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2, 2014 – TODAY, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will
host a media conference call to announce new funding to help grow
Florida’s, and the nation’s, specialty crop industries. Specialty crops
include fruits and vegetables, as well as nuts and nursery products. The
funding is being provided through the 2014 Farm Bill’s marquee specialty
crop programs, which substantially increased specialty crop support for
fruit and vegetable growers.

The 2014 Farm Bill provided historic support to strengthen rural
communities by supporting local and regional markets and improving access
to fresh, healthy, and nutritious high quality products for millions of
Americans. It is one of relatively few bipartisan pieces of legislation
passed during this session of Congress.


*Thursday, Oct. 2, 20143:30 p.m. EDT*

*WHAT:          *Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will host a media
conference call to announce new funding to help grow Florida’s, and the
nation’s, specialty crop industries.

*DIAL-IN:       *888-469-1247

*PASSCODE: *SPECIALTY CROP (Given Verbally)

Trouble number – 202-720-8560

To join the Q&A portion of the meeting, reporters are instructed to press
*1 on their touch tone phone.

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discrimination, write: USDA, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil
Rights, Office of Adjudication, 1400 Independence Ave., SW, Washington, DC
20250-9410 or call (866) 632-9992 (Toll-free Customer Service), (800)
877-8339 (Local or Federal relay), (866) 377-8642 (Relay voice users).*
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