More than 30 members of the CEA Alliance , a trade association stand for and dish out indoor grower and their partner , come to Washington , D.C. , January 30 - 31 to educate members of Congress and the Administration about the rapidly growing indoor farming sector of U.S. agriculture .
CEA Alliance Members play with USDA official to advocate for indoor land .
“ At a clip when the U.S. is import more fresh intellectual nourishment than ever before , this year ’s Washington , D.C. fly sheet - in served as a critical reminder that indoor farming will be one of the strategies we need moving forward to blow up domestic production of alimentary and healthy sweet food , “ said Colin O’Neil , Senior Director of Public Policy & Social Impact for Bowery Farming and Chair of the CEA Alliance Public Policy Working Group . “ Policymakers heard loudly and exculpated this week that indoor farming is at an important inflexion point , and there are commonsense opportunities in the farm bill , tax stadium , appropriation , and ongoing working class treatment that could be a catalyst for driving further origination in U.S. agriculture and making the domesticated indoor farming sector more competitive on the global stage . ”
CEA Alliance members meet with Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow and Ranking Member John Boozman , House Agriculture , Appropriations , and Ways and Means Committee leaders , and some 30 extra Congressional offices .
In summation , the CEA Alliance member touch with USDA drawing card , including Undersecretary for Farm Production and Conservation Robert Bonnie , Deputy Under Secretary for Research , Education , and Economics Sanah Baig , Agricultural Marketing Service Administrator Bruce Summers , and Director of the Office of Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production Brian Guse .
The Alliance meetings concluded with an open info telephone exchange with Food and Drug Administration official to control that industriousness and government continue to lick together to repel substantial intellectual nourishment safety practices . The Alliance of late put out a new secure practice session text file , Commodity Specific Food Safety Guidelines for Controlled Environment Agriculture Produce Production of Leafy Greens and Herbs , which is a helpful document to industry phallus around the world .
“ As indoor farming continues to expand , it ’s important that our home leaders recognize a new Clarence Shepard Day Jr. in U.S agriculture , ” order Tom Stenzel , CEA Alliance Executive Director . “ Indoor farming is here to remain and will go on to act as a quickly growing theatrical role in feeding America . ”
