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  • Montana, USDA Award Nearly $1 Million in Specialty Crop Block Grants

    Angie Nelson|Dec 3, 2014

    The Montana Department of Agriculture and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) have selected the recipients of the 2014 Specialty Crop Block Grants. Overall, eleven entities involved with specialty crops met the grant qualifications and will receive some $986,000 in grant funds to help advance agriculture in Montana. Specialty crops are fruits and vegetables, culinary and medicinal herbs, horticultural, and nursery crops, including floriculture. Plants must be intensively cultivated and used by people for food, medicinal purposes and/or...