Twenty-four agricultural operators and producers sent a letter to Congressman Vern Buchanan and Congresswoman Allyson Schwartz warning against “reducing the number of farms and ranches eligible to use cash accounting” and for supporting “maintaining the current $500,000 Section 179 small business expensing limitation and the $2 million acquisition limit.”
The 24 associations behind the letter:
- Agricultural and Food Transporters Conference
- Agricultural Retailers Association
- American Farm Bureau Federation
- American Farmland Trust
- American Mushroom Institute
- American Sheep Industry Association
- American Soybean Association
- National Barley Growers Association
- National Cattlemen’s Beef Association
- National Corn Growers Association
- National Cotton Council
- National Council of Farmer Cooperatives
- National Milk Producers Federation
- National Pork Producers Council
- National Potato Council
- National Turkey Federation
- Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association
- Public Lands Council
- South East Dairy Farmers Association
- United Egg Producers
- United Fresh Produce Association
- U.S. Apple Association
- U.S. Canola Association
- U.S.A. Rice Federation
Read the letter to Congressman Vern Buchanan and Congresswoman Allyson Schwartz