Senate Agriculture - 2025-02-11 - 9:00AM

Legislative Committee Briefing — Working Lands Enterprise Initiative · February 11, 2025

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Opening remarks and event framing

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Unidentified Speaker (first speaker) described a recent producers' gathering, noted seasonal attendance challenges, and framed the committee's purpose: to ensure small producers' voices are heard. Introduced the agenda item on the Working Lands Enterprise Initiative and invited presenters to lead off.

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Briefing on the Working Lands Enterprise Initiative: program history, cumulative impacts since 2012, FY2025 investments (38 projects funded), examples of grantees, service-provider investments and the Sprout loan pilot; strong demand for limited state funds ($1,000,000 appropriation vs. ~$5.37M requests).

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