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Minnesota Agricultural Water Quality Certification Program Advisory Committee
Starts:
Wed, 03/26/2025 - 10:00 am
Ends:
Wed, 03/26/2025 - 2:00 pm
Location:
Minnesota Department of Agriculture625 Robert St. N
St. Paul, MN 55155
Details:
The next MAWQCP Advisory Committee meeting will be at 10:00 am on March 26, 2025, at the Orville L. Freeman Building in St. Paul, MN.
Optional online attendance will be provided at this link.
Individuals with a disability who need reasonable accommodation to participate in this event please contact Megan Moland at (651) 201-6003.
Agriculture Research, Education, Extension, and Technology Transfer (AGREETT) 2025 Advisory Panel Meeting
Starts:
Tue, 03/25/2025 - 9:00 am
Ends:
Tue, 03/25/2025 - 11:00 am
MDA is a:
Sponsor
Presenter
Details:
The Agriculture Research, Education, Extension, and Technology Transfer (AGREETT) panel advises the commissioner of agriculture and the College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences at the University of Minnesota on investments to achieve long-term agricultural productivity increases through improved infrastructure, vision, and accountability in agricultural research and technology transfer, agriculture rapid response, and agricultural education.
Contact Paul Hugunin for meeting details.
See the AGREETT state statute for more information about this grant program.
March 11, 2025
Three community development organizations in Minnesota will receive grant funding to strengthen agriculture-focused financial services through the Minnesota Department of Agriculture’s (MDA)’s new Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) Technical Assistance Grant.
The MDA awarded $270,000 in total to three CDFIs for the following purposes:
- African Economic Development Solutions: $80,000 to train staff on resources for farm businesses, establish partnerships with agriculture-related organizations, and create new loan products, programs and policies to serve farmers.
- Hmong American Partnership: $90,000 to increase staff expertise in agricultural financial services, enhance farmers’ knowledge through loan readiness workshops and technical assistance, and develop tailored loan products to fit the financial needs of farmers.
- Latino Economic Development Center (LEDC): $100,000 to strengthen their agricultural lending program through a new ag loan policy manual, a dedicated ag loan fund, technology and processes that deploy capital to farmers faster, and professional development for LEDC staff to better serve farmers.
Awardees for this grant are certified CDFIs who serve or intend to serve farmers in Minnesota and have participated in at least one U. S. Department of Agriculture grant or loan program. A certified CDFI is defined as a bank, credit union, microloan fund, or venture capital provider who has completed a certification process with the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s CDFI Fund.
The grants were offered to CDFIs in two main areas of technical assistance:
- Technical assistance provided by CFDIs to farmers (e.g. assisting farmers with loan readiness or expanding outreach efforts toward targeted groups with agriculture-focused financial services).
- Technical assistance for CDFIs to increase their own capacity to serve farmers (e.g. to develop their agriculture lending program or internal knowledge and processes as a foundation to provide financial services to emerging farmers).
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Media Contact
Larry Schumacher, MDA Communications
651-201-6629
Larry.Schumacher@state.mn.us
Please Note: The corporate farm renewals were mailed out last week, and they inadvertently added a $5.00 surcharge
