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Farmers and food‑system groups back food‑security grants, healthy soils and APR funding in Mass Ready Act
Summary
Representatives of farming and food‑system nonprofits supported the bill's food security and agricultural line items and asked the committee to earmark $5.5 million a year for the Healthy Soils Program, increase APR and food infrastructure funding, and expand farmland access.
What happened: Agricultural and food‑system witnesses including NOFA‑Massachusetts, American Farmland Trust, the Massachusetts Food System Collaborative and local farmers told the committee they support the Mass Ready Act’s inclusion of food security infrastructure grants, agricultural program funding and healthy‑soils initiatives, and asked for targeted earmarks and increases.
Why it matters: Witnesses argued agriculture and food infrastructure are…
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