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Utah Ag Funding

Johnlambeth
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needpixs.com

Utah farmers and ranchers struggling because of the coronavirus pandemic can apply for up to $40,000 in grants from the Utah Conservation Commission as part of federal relief funding headed under the CARES Act.
 
Commissioner of the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food, Logan Wilde, says  total funding for the program in Utah is capped at $20 million.
 
Wilde says the many of the state's farms and ranches are on the brink of going out of business.  Prices for commodities have dropped drastically, he says, and many distribution outlets have been greatly reduced.
 
The purpose of the grant program is to assist farms and ranches to overcome the financial harm of the pandemic, to continue food and fiber production in Utah and to maintain the agricultural operation’s supply chains and delivery of products to market.
 
According to Wilde, the commission may make a grant of up to $40,000 to an agricultural operation financially harmed as a result of federal, state or local public health measures taken to minimize exposure to COVID-19.

At 14-years-old, Kerry began working as a reporter for KVEL “The Hot One” in Vernal, Utah. Her radio news interests led her to Logan where she became news director for KBLQ while attending Utah State University. She graduated USU with a degree in Broadcast Journalism and spent the next few years working for Utah Public Radio. Leaving UPR in 1993 she spent the next 14 years as the full time mother of four boys before returning in 2007. Kerry and her husband Boyd reside in Nibley.