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Michigan Farm Bureau outlines education, hunger-relief and regulatory priorities to appropriations subcommittee
Summary
The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development and the Department of Natural Resources heard a presentation from Rebecca Park, legislative counsel for the Michigan Farm Bureau, who described the group’s education programs, volunteer and fundraising efforts against childhood hunger and policy priorities for the coming year.
The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development and the Department of Natural Resources heard a presentation from Rebecca Park, legislative counsel for the Michigan Farm Bureau, who described the group’s education programs, volunteer and fundraising efforts against childhood hunger and policy priorities for the coming year.
Park told members the Farm Bureau is “the state's largest general farm organization, representing all of agriculture with over 41,000 farm families” and reviewed outreach programs such as agriculture-in-the-classroom, mobile farm-science trailers and a “farm crate” curriculum that reaches roughly 10,000 K–5 students and 400…
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