Website Expands to Provide More Tools for Value-added Agriculture

WEBSITE EXPANDS TO PROVIDE MORE TOOLS FOR VALUE-ADDED AG

Audio provided as a service to farm broadcasters by the Agricultural Marketing Resource Center.

Audio with Ray Hansen, Agricultural Marketing Resource Center Executive Director.

Suggested Lead: The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently announced businesses and entrepreneurs in 44 states and Puerto Rico receiving funding this year through the Value-Added Producer Grants Program. The Agricultural Marketing Resource Center website is funded through USDA Rural Development in conjunction with those grants. Ray Hansen - AgMRC Executive Director - says the site is a supplemental tool for those who need or want more information and assistance on how to develop or expand their value-added enterprises. Hansen says the site is going through some changes…tape

Cut #1        :32            O.C…”country right now.”

Hansen says there’s a lot to look forward to in the website’s future…tape

Cut #2        :25            O.C…”growth continue.”

For more information and to see the Agricultural Marketing Resource Center website’s new changes - go to www dot agmrc dot org (www.agmrc.org).

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