Produce leaders meet with U.S. Secretary of
Agriculture.
Fred Recchiuti and other produce representatives met with U.S.
Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns at United's Fresh Marketplace
Show in Chicago on May 7, 2007. Secretary Johanns discussed topics in
the 2007 Farm Bill and comprehensive immigration reform. The visit was
arranged after a roundtable discussion in West Chester, PA in April with
Josh Stull, Senator Arlen Specter's Legislative Assistant, where
concerns of the Pennsylvania mushroom farm community were conveyed by
Recchiuti, Eugene Richard of AMI's Community Awareness Committee,
Pete Gray of Phillips Mushroom Farms, Inc. and Chris Alonzo of Pietro
Industries.
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