H.R. 2559 allows producers the maximum insurance coverage on economic risks faced for weather and market losses in both crops and livestock. Senate action on the conference report was pending Thursday. Additionally, the bill consolidates 11 plant quarantine laws that date back to 1913 and which comprise a patchwork of sometimes confusing and inadequate authorities. Exotic pests and plants are nothing new in the state of California. In fact, it is estimated that a new pest is introduced into our state every 60 days.
Growers are constantly on guard and digging in their pocket-books again and again.
There is no doubt that today's assistance will aid growers, especially, those presently struggling to recover from the highly mobile pest spreading the deadly Pierce's Disease to wine-grapes across our great state.