Tom McCall Ag Sciences Complex and USDA Food Security Funding in Hawaii-Alaska-Territories
From the Ag Information Network, I’m Bob Larson with your Agribusiness Update.
**Athens Technical College’s agricultural science & conservation enforcement programs are now housed in a new facility, called the Tom McCall Agricultural Science Complex, on the Elberton Campus.
Since 2014 ATC has offered an agricultural science program to prepare students in Northeast Georgia for jobs in agriculture.
The program began on ATC’s main Athens’ campus, but last year moved to the new facility that was dedicated in a March 31st ceremony.
www.gfb.org/media-and-publications/news.cms/2023/1455/athens-tech-dedicates-tom-mccall-agricultural-science-complex
**A Sacramento appeals court has sided with California farmers on three cases related to water quality regulations, which environmental groups had challenged.
Finding in favor of the California Farm Bureau and the State Water Resources Control Board, the Third District Court of Appeals upheld the Central Valley’s Irrigated Lands Regulatory Program.
Intended to protect water quality in the Eastern San Joaquin watershed, environmental groups had challenged the program as insufficient under the law.
**The USDA announced $7.6 million in funding to improve food security in Alaska, Hawaii and U.S. Territories.
The funding seeks to increase the quantity and quality of locally grown food through small-scale gardening, herding, and livestock operations in food-insecure communities.
USDA announced the funding as part of its Micro-Grants for Food Security Program.
This year, the program received an additional $3 million through the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023.
