Government Affairs, Federal The Leading Grower Representative in Washington, D.C.
2025 has been a busy year with the onset of a new Administration in Washington. With every new Administration come both challenges and opportunities. Western Growers has been able to work aggressively with the new Administration, as well as other agricultural organizations, to push for significant reforms in the H-2A guest worker program. Those reforms have come to fruition, as the Administration has announced several reforms, including notable improvements to the wage structure. As part of this year’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act tax package, Western Growers and its specialty crop allies secured significant funding increases for federal Farm Bill programs that benefit our community. Most notably, we secured over $100 million more each year for Specialty Crop Block Grants and the Specialty Crop Research Initiative – programs that exclusively support our priorities, such as food safety research and automation advancement. Finally, Western Growers has worked to help growers overcome challenges caused by high inflation, and at the end of last year and beginning of this year, we helped secure funding for growers as part
of the Marketing Assistance for Specialty Crop (MASC) program. This program has secured billions of dollars in economic aid to growers in our industry impacted by high inflation.
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