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NOFA asks House commerce committee to fund $15.6 million farm disaster fund and $500,000 for local food programs
Summary
NOFA Vermont urged lawmakers to include $15.6 million for the Farm and Forestry Operations Security Special Fund (S.60) to provide rapid relief for climate-related losses, and requested $500,000 for Crop Cash/Crop Cash Plus and FarmShare programs to expand food security and market support for farmers.
Maddie Kempner, policy and organizing director at NOFA Vermont, told the committee that the Farm and Forestry Operations Security Special Fund (S.60) will provide rapid-response relief payments to farmers and loggers after extreme weather events and must be funded in the FY27 budget to be implemented. "Without an appropriation in the FY27 budget, the fund will not be implemented for the upcoming fiscal year," Kempner said.
Kempner described recent climate-driven losses reported to state agencies that informed the funding request: testimony cited roughly $94 million in…
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