Maine LD942 aims to safeguard sustainable food sources by prioritizing small and midsize farms in federal and state grants and establishing.
Maine LD942 seeks to ensure that federal grants designated for livestock farmers prioritize small and midsize farms. The bill mandates the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry to issue clear state grant application requirements and create a process for evaluating state grants in collaboration with stakeholders. It also requires the development and prioritization of shared-use kitchen programming to enable midsize farms to build shared-use kitchen infrastructure and increase processing capability for agricultural products for personal use and local community demand.
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