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Agency of Agriculture lays out $61.19M FY27 budget, proposes fee shift to general fund and one new staffer
Summary
Secretary Anson Tevitz presented the Agency of Agriculture, Food & Markets' FY27 proposal (~$61.19M), seeking to shift certain clean-water fees off medium/large farms onto the general fund, add one business-office position, and keep core programs level-funded while noting federal grant changes.
Anson Tevitz, secretary of the Agency of Agriculture, Food & Markets, presented the administration's FY27 budget to the House Appropriations Committee and described a $61,190,000 governor's recommendation that relies heavily on federal and special funds while using roughly $13.74 million in general-fund dollars.
Tevitz said the agency is asking for two targeted changes: a move that would relieve medium and large farms of annual clean-water program fees (the agency currently charges about $1,500 for medium farms and $2,500 for large farms) by instead using general-fund dollars to support the water-quality program, and funding for a single new position in the…
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