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Mandate Details

Description: Report on Farm Down Payment Assistance Grants, including: (1) background information on beginning farmers in Minnesota and any other information that the commissioner and authority find relevant to evaluating the effect of the grants on increasing opportunities for and the number of beginning farmers; (2) the number and amount of grants; (3) the geographic distribution of grants by county; (4) the number of grant recipients who are emerging farmers; (6) disaggregated data regarding the gender, race, and ethnicity of grant recipients; (5) the number of grant recipients who were experiencing limited land access or limited market access when the grant was awarded (7) the number of farmers who cease to own land and are subject to payment of a penalty, along with the reasons for the land ownership cessation; and (8) the number and amount of grant applications that exceeded the allocation available in each year.
Law: 2022 Minn. Laws Chap. 95 Art. 2 Sec. 10
Statute: 17.133 Subd. 3
Agency(ies)/Supplier(s): Minn. Dept. of Agriculture
Due Date: 12/01/2024
Frequency: Annual
Subjects: Agriculture - Finance
Committee/Agency Jurisdiction: Agriculture
Economic Development/Growth
Jobs and Economic Development/Growth 

Item(s) Received

TitlePublisher(s)Publication DateCoverageDate ReceivedReport LinkCall #
Down Payment Assistance Grant Legislative Report Minn. Dept. of Agriculture - Rural Finance Authority December 7, 2023FY 202312/07/2023 23-1946.pdf