{"id":272335,"date":"2026-08-26T04:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T04:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/272335\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T04:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T04:36:11","slug":"usda-to-spend-20m-on-surplus-grape-juice-to-aid-lake-erie-growers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/272335\/","title":{"rendered":"USDA to spend $20M on surplus grape juice to aid Lake Erie growers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The USDA will buy $20 million of surplus Concord grape juice to aid Lake Erie grape growers amid market declines, Rep. Langworthy and Sen. Schumer announce.<\/p>\n<p>BUFFALO, N.Y. \u2014 The U.S. Department of Agriculture will purchase $20 million worth of surplus Concord grape juice to help support growers in the Lake Erie grape belt, lawmakers announced.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Rep. Nick Langworthy and Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced the federal intervention following months of calls from industry advocates for action to stabilize what they described as a rapidly deteriorating market.<\/p>\n<p>The market downturn was exacerbated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgrz.com\/article\/money\/business\/refresco-contract-cancellations-threaten-wny-grape-industry\/71-e806a60f-779b-4e7b-9ef6-608d2e0bac4f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">earlier this year when Refresco canceled<\/a> contracts with grape growers across Western New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio. Other factors include declining grape juice consumption, elevated inventories and a large 2025 harvest.<\/p>\n<p>The situation has affected nearly 130 growers across the region.<\/p>\n<p>The USDA purchase is intended to help reduce excess supplies and provide relief to growers facing an increasingly difficult market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The USDA will buy $20 million of surplus Concord grape juice to aid Lake Erie grape growers amid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-272335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}