During her opening remarks, Senator Shaheen said: "We have fruit growers in New Hampshire who lost 80 to 100 percent of their crops in 2023 because of the freeze and late frost that really devastated so many of our growers. Because we have small farms, and about 90 percent of our growers don't participate in federal crop insurance programs because the crop insurance programs have not really been designed to help farms like we have in New Hampshire."