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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION .
117TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 117-221
RECOGNIZING THE IMPORTANCE OF THE BLUEBERRY INDUSTRY TO THE
UNITED STATES AND SUPPORTING THE DESIGNATION OF JULY 2021 AS
NATIONAL BLUEBERRY MONTH
DECEMBER 20, 2021.-Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed
Mr. DAVID SCOTT of Georgia, from the Committee on Agriculture,
submitted the following
R E P O R T
[To accompany H. Res. 271]
The Committee on Agriculture, to whom was referred the resolu-
tion (H. Res. 271) recognizing the importance of the blueberry in-
dustry to the United States and supporting the designation of July
2021 as National Blueberry Month, having considered the same, re-
ports favorably thereon with amendments and recommends that
the resolution as amended be agreed to.
The amendments are as follows:
Strike all after the resolving clause and insert the following:
That the House of Representatives-
(1) supports the designation of National Blueberry Month;
(2) recognizes the contributions of United States growers and their families;
and
(3) recognizes that purchasing blueberries grown in the United States sup-
ports farmers, jobs, and the economy.
Amend the preamble to read as follows:
Whereas blueberries are a native North American fruit, first used fresh and dried
in food and medicines by Native Americans who introduced them to early colo-
nists, which led to new uses and forms, including frozen, establishing traditions
still observed today;
Whereas wild blueberries continue to be managed and harvested in Maine by farm-
ers, including the Wabanaki, as a native, naturally occurring crop;
Whereas the pioneering work conducted in New Jersey by Elizabeth White and Dr.
Frederick Coville, a Department of Agriculture botanist, in the early 1900s to
domesticate wild lowbush blueberries resulted in the development of the hybrid
for cultivated highbush blueberries;
Whereas because of these early efforts, highbush blueberries are large, sweet, juicy
berries that can be commercially produced and shipped, allowing them to be-
come an important United States agricultural industry;
Whereas wild blueberries-
(1) are small and sweet; and
(2) are not planted, but still grow and are harvested where they have naturally
occurred for thousands of years;
Whereas highbush and wild blueberries have a total harvested area estimated at
more than 110,000 acres and are produced in 48 States by nearly 16,000 farms;
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