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John Duarte: “I think if we keep communicating it properly, this will be a…”

Featuring: John Duarte, Republican | Former U.S. House, California, District 13

Rep John Duarte on the GATES Act

Published August 5, 2023 | Video Starts at 08:16

Jim cost is a co sponsor on the Democrat side we're adding every day. And I think if we keep communicating it properly, this will be a very high likelihood that we'll get this into the upcoming farm bill. Great. Is there anything else that you think our listeners should know about this? It's a $900,000 limit that we're going past so long as the individual applying to the grants. (08:16–08:27)

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Asserts a high likelihood of getting the initiative into the upcoming farm bill.

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“Currently, there's a $900,000 adjusted gross income limitation.”
Rep John Duarte on the GATES Act | Uploaded August 5, 2023 | 01:15-01:22
“A family farm can have a good year, make over $900,000, and be disqualified from the incentives to be able to do that.”
Rep John Duarte on the GATES Act | Uploaded August 5, 2023 | 01:23-01:36
“If you look at a viable farming operation over towards Jimmy's area in the Salinas Valley or along the coast there, you could easily run…”
Rep John Duarte on the GATES Act | Uploaded August 5, 2023 | 02:17-02:35
“In California these days, 5000 cow dairy is not unheard of.”
Rep John Duarte on the GATES Act | Uploaded August 5, 2023 | 03:13-03:18
“California agriculture is outgrowing the limits placed in these, in these programs.”
Rep John Duarte on the GATES Act | Uploaded August 5, 2023 | 03:27-03:34
“We want to protect our groundwater.”
Rep John Duarte on the GATES Act | Uploaded August 5, 2023 | 04:05-04:08
“We may want to have an equip program for a large grower to use micro irrigation drip or small sprinklers instead of flood irrigation.”
Rep John Duarte on the GATES Act | Uploaded August 5, 2023 | 04:14-04:23
“We might want to have a program where a large grower can put in the capital infrastructure needed to access surface water to a farm that has…”
Rep John Duarte on the GATES Act | Uploaded August 5, 2023 | 04:23-04:35
“If we don't include the largest growers in these programs, we don't really get the economic impact.”
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“Another emerging issue in California is there's a lot of land down in the South Valley, down in the Westlands Water District, where we just…”
Rep John Duarte on the GATES Act | Uploaded August 5, 2023 | 06:22-06:33
“We're trying to do a lot here in Congress, rationalize the Endangered Species act to create groundwater sustainability programs so they can…”
Rep John Duarte on the GATES Act | Uploaded August 5, 2023 | 06:32-06:43
“If we have the conservation reserve program opened up, instead of some of these growers putting in hundreds of thousands acres of solar…”
Rep John Duarte on the GATES Act | Uploaded August 5, 2023 | 06:43-07:15
“We really want to make sure that as these changes are happening very, very fast, some areas in California and around the country that we…”
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“I'm very happy that we can start off with this as a bipartisan, co-led effort, and then we can add republican supporters, David Rouser…”
Rep John Duarte on the GATES Act | Uploaded August 5, 2023 | 07:57-08:17
“It's a $900,000 limit that we're going past so long as the individual applying to the grants. The principals in these companies has at least…”
Rep John Duarte on the GATES Act | Uploaded August 5, 2023 | 08:30-08:47
“This could be agritourism or it could be processing, packing, shipping. Oftentimes there's vertical integration with the farming itself.”
Rep John Duarte on the GATES Act | Uploaded August 5, 2023 | 08:47-08:58
“We want to make sure this is going to real farmers that support the community and that just happen to be of a larger size because they've…”
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