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With the next Farm Bill on the horizon, there are new opportunities for Congress to support local and regional food systems. The Local Farms, Food, and Jobs Act, introduced in November 2011 by Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-ME-1), contains several provisions to bolster funding for local food infrastructure and markets. One provision, for instance, would increase Business and Industry (B&I) federal loan guarantees for local and regional food enterprises. Another would require Farm Credit System lenders to implement a program for providing credit to farmers producing for the local market and to undertake initiatives to improve local food infrastructure.
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