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Code · BILL · 113th Congress · S. 679 (Introduced in Senate) — To promote local and regional farm and food systems, and for other purposes. · Sec. 1

Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents

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This Act may be cited as the . Local Farms, Food, and Jobs Act of 2013 The table of contents of this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. Title I—Nutrition Sec. 101. Retailers. Sec. 102. Demonstration projects on acceptance of benefits of mobile transactions. Sec. 103. Use of benefits for purchase of community-supported agriculture share. Sec. 104. Additional authority for purchase of fresh fruits, vegetables, and other specialty food crops. Sec. 105. Encouraging locally and regionally grown and raised food.
Sec. 106. Assistance for community food projects. Sec. 107. Senior farmers' market nutrition program. Sec. 108. Hunger-free communities. Sec. 109. Food and Nutrition Agriculture Service Learning Program. Title II—Credit Sec. 201. Loans to local and regional food producers. Sec. 202. Clarification of the mission of the farm credit system to recognize the economic benefits of supporting young, beginning, and small farmers and ranchers, and contributions of local and regional farm and food systems.
Sec. 203. Young, beginning, and small farmers and ranchers and locally or regionally produced agricultural products. Title III—Rural Development Sec. 301. Availability of rural business opportunity grants for local and regional food systems. Sec. 302. Clarification on allowed partnerships for certain community facilities grants and loans. Sec. 303. Availability of rural business enterprise grants for value-added processing, aggregation, distribution, storage, and marketing in connection with production agriculture.
Sec. 304. Making improvements to business and industry direct and guaranteed loans to benefit producers of local or regionally produced agricultural food products. Sec. 305. Value-added agricultural product market development grants. Title IV—Research, Education, and Related Matters Sec. 401. Agriculture and food research initiative. Sec. 402. Local and regional food system enterprise facilitation. Sec. 403. Conventional breeding initiative. Sec. 404. National genetics resources program.
Title V—Horticulture Sec. 501. Farmers market and local food promotion program. Sec. 502. Specialty crop block grants. Sec. 503. Study on local food production and program evaluation. Title VI—Crop Insurance Sec. 601. Research and development authority. Sec. 602. Whole farm risk management insurance. Sec. 603. Approval of costs for research and development. Sec. 604. Crop insurance for organic crops. Sec. 605. Nationwide expansion of agricultural management assistance program and inclusion of organic certification cost share assistance.
Title VII—Miscellaneous Sec. 701. Technical assistance. Sec. 702. Guidance. Sec. 703. Labels and public information on label content. Sec. 704. Meat and poultry processing report.
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