Georgia Pollinator Gardens and USDA Meat/Poultry Grants
From the Ag Info Community, I’m Bob Larson together with your Agribusiness Replace.
**Nearly 30 Georgia county Farm Bureaus joined a nationwide effort to have fun former First Woman Rosalynn Carter’s ninety fifth birthday on Aug. 18 by planting pollinator gardens supposed to extend habitat for Monarch butterflies.
The Georgia Farm Bureau Ladies’s Management Committee planted a backyard on the Foxfire Museum in June.
The Rosalynn Carter Butterfly Path got down to register 95 new gardens however far exceeded that purpose with 240 new private and non-private gardens registered.
www.gfb.org/media-and-publications/information.cms/2022/1329/farm-bureaus-plant-gardens-in-honor-of-rosalynn-carter
**USDA’s Ag Advertising and marketing Service introduced an extra $21.9 million for grant tasks by the Meat and Poultry Inspection Readiness Grant Program.
The overall of $54.6 million in funding will assist strengthen and develop new market alternatives for meat and poultry processors all through the U.S.
Facility enhancements funded by this system will assist processors receive a Federal Grant of Inspection or qualify for a state’s Cooperative Interstate Cargo program.
**Western ag teams are calling on the Biden administration to shortly implement the Inflation Discount Act $4-billion in spending allotted to the continued drought within the west.
The teams need the administration to shortly launch a Discover of Funding Availability and shortly deploy that funding to deal with essentially the most pressing wants.
The letter is signed by the Arizona, California, Colorado and Oregon Farm Bureaus, the Agribusiness and Water Council of Arizona, Household Farm Alliance and Western Growers.
