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This bill would continue federal support for education and training in food and agricultural sciences. It updates an older law so that grants and fellowships for students, teachers, and researchers in agriculture can keep receiving funding for the next several years. The goal is to help prepare more people for jobs and research in farming, food systems, and related science fields.
- It adds a new funding level of $40 million for each fiscal year from 2025 through 2029.
- The money would support grants and fellowships tied to food and agricultural sciences education.
- The bill is meant to keep these education programs running without interruption by renewing the funding authority.
Official Summaries
Future Funding for Agricultural Research, Mentorship, and Education Reauthorization Act or the Future FARMER Act
This bill reauthorizes through FY2029 National Institute of Food and Agriculture grants and fellowships for food and agriculture science education. This includes programs such as the (1) Higher Education Challenge Grants Program, (2) Agriculture in the Classroom Program, and (3) National Awards Program for Excellence in College and University Teaching in the Food and Agricultural Sciences.
Current Full Text
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1952 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1952
To amend the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching
Policy Act of 1977 to extend grants and fellowships for food and
agricultural sciences education.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
March 6, 2025
Mr. Riley of New York (for himself and Mr. Feenstra) introduced the
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture
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A BILL
To amend the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching
Policy Act of 1977 to extend grants and fellowships for food and
agricultural sciences education.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Future Funding for Agricultural
Research, Mentorship, and Education Reauthorization Act'' or the
``Future FARMER Act''.
SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL
SCIENCES EDUCATION.
Section 1417(m) of the National Agricultural Research, Extension,
and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3152(m)) is amended--
(1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``and'' at the end;
(2) in paragraph (2), by striking the period at the end and
adding ``; and''; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
``(3) $40,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2025 through
2029.''.
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