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Maine advisory board hears $20 million ask, weighs how to split agriculture and forestry funding
Summary
Board members reviewed two pending bond bills that could capitalize a new Agriculture, Food and Forestry Fund and discussed preserving both forestry and agricultural allocations, while identifying needs for microloans, simplified applications and stronger due diligence.
Members of an advisory board convened by the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry reviewed potential ways to capitalize a proposed Agriculture, Food and Forestry Fund and debated how any new dollars should be allocated across farming, food businesses and the forest-products sector.
Staff reported that two agriculture-related bond bills are under consideration and said both “have the potential to capitalize the fund.” Staff further told the board that “the administration is advocating,…
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