Empowering Women in Agriculture Act
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- House
- Sponsors
- 4
- Latest action
- Mar 24, 2026
What it does
The Empowering Women in Agriculture Act would amend the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to expand outreach and assistance to socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers who are women by including gender as a factor in defining socially disadvantaged groups and adding women’s nonprofit organizations as eligible recipients of funding. It requires that at least 10 percent of annual funding under the program be used to support programs and services specifically addressing the needs of socially disadvantaged women farmers and ranchers. The bill also extends the authorization of appropriations for the program from fiscal years 2019–2023 to 2021–2031. These changes aim to…
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