By Jacqui Fatka
Delta Farm Press
Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., on July 28 unveiled all 12 appropriations bills for fiscal year 2023. The FY 2023 appropriations bill for the Department of Agriculture and Food and Drug Administration provides discretionary funding of $27.072 billion, an increase of $2.3 billion over fiscal year 2022.