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Introduced on February 26, 2025 by Christina Houlahan
This bill tells the federal crop insurance program to research and develop an insurance policy for mushrooms and the materials they grow in (like compost). If the policy meets program standards, the agency must make it available to producers. The study must look at covering common risks such as pest flies (phorid and sciarid), fungal and viral diseases, weather-related power outages, and heavy rain that washes out growing media. It must also consider best practices to reduce losses, whether coverage should be one policy or split by production stage, ways to cut paperwork for short grow cycles and many varieties, and whether to protect against revenue losses. A plain-language summary from the Library of Congress echoes these points and notes that any resulting policy that meets program rules must be offered to producers.
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