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As New York Fruit and Vegetable Farmers Struggle With Produce-Pricing Crisis, Gillibrand Calls on USDA to Investigate Why Prices Paid to Farmers Aren’t Keeping Up With the Market

While the Prices of Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Have Increased for Consumers, the Prices that Farmers Receive for their Produce Has Not Kept Up – And Even Gone Down in Some Cases; The USDA Has Failed to Conduct a Full Review of the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Market for Decades and Structural Changes Since Then Have Left Many Farmers Facing Uncertainty and Low Prices

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