It also prioritizes farmer safety, including my legislation, the Roll-Over Protection and Safety (ROPS) Act , to help retrofit older tractors with life-saving rollover protection systems.
Randy Feenstra will prioritize farmer safety by helping retrofit older tractors with rollover protection systems.
Occurrences
Roll-Over Prevention and Safety (ROPS) Act – which would continue operations of the National ROPS Rebate Program at USDA to help combat on-farm deaths caused by tractor rollovers.
continue operations of the National ROPS Rebate Program at USDA to help combat on-farm deaths caused by tractor rollovers.
Evidence
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Congress.gov lists Rep. Randy Feenstra as sponsor of H.R.6944. The bill text would require USDA to award cost-share grants for purchasing, transporting, and installing approved rollover protection structures on eligible agricultural tractors, generally at 70 percent of cost.
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The Senate Agriculture Committee chairman stated that committee Democrats voted against advancing a farm bill, blocking legislation intended to support farmers and rural communities, while saying he remained committed to further work.
Assessments
Feenstra made a concrete same-term legislative effort directly matching the promise by sponsoring H.R. 6944, which would create USDA cost-share grants to retrofit older agricultural tractors with rollover protection structures. However, the bill remained at the introduced/referred stage and the broader farm bill vehicle had not advanced as of the available 2026 evidence, so the promised retrofit assistance had not yet been enacted or implemented. Because he is still in office in the relevant federal term and the proposal remains pending rather than finally defeated, this is unresolved rather than delivered.