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119-hr-1613119th CongressWALLET

Protecting Mushroom Farmers Act

Sponsored By: Representative Houlahan, Chrissy [D-PA-6]

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Summary

This bill would create a time-limited federal research program to design and test a crop insurance policy for mushroom growing media and mushroom production. Mushroom crop insurance research would focus on pest and disease risks, weather-driven losses, streamlined reporting, and revenue protection.

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  • Mushroom farmers: Would aim to produce insurance options that cover production and growing-media losses and revenue shortfalls. Research must consider pests (mushroom phorid flies and sciarid flies), fungal and viral pathogens, electricity loss from weather, and excessive rainfall events over 5-, 10-, or 20-year periods.
  • Federal Crop Insurance Corporation and contractors: Would authorize the Corporation to conduct R&D and enter contracts with qualified parties to develop policy designs. The Corporation must evaluate single-policy versus phased coverage, identify best practices and simplified paperwork for short propagation cycles, and report results and recommendations to the House and Senate Agriculture Committees within two years.

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Analyzed Economic Effects

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Path to crop insurance for mushroom farms

If enacted, the government would study and help build a crop insurance policy for mushroom growing media and mushrooms. The study would test coverage for pests (like phorid and sciarid flies), fungal and viral disease, power loss from weather, and heavy rain that destroys growing media. It would also review best practices, whether to offer one policy or phase-based coverage, how to cut paperwork for short grow cycles and many varieties, and revenue protection. Once a policy meets the legal tests in section 508(h), the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation would have to offer it. The Corporation would have to report results and recommendations to the House and Senate agriculture committees within 2 years of enactment.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Houlahan, Chrissy [D-PA-6]

PA • D

Cosponsors

  • Rep. Meuser, Daniel [R-PA-9]

    PA • R

    Sponsored 2/26/2025

  • Rep. Fitzpatrick, Brian K. [R-PA-1]

    PA • R

    Sponsored 4/30/2025

  • Rep. Bresnahan, Robert P. [R-PA-8]

    PA • R

    Sponsored 12/18/2025

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