The Northern Maine Development Commission and the United States Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency will hold another business training workshop.
U.S. Senators Susan Collins and Angus King and Congressman Bruce Poliquin applauded Wednesday’s announcement that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is awarding a $6 million grant to a Maine partnership led by the Nature Conservancy.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is making Maine farms hard-hit by the drought eligible for federal assistance.
The USDA has designated Androscoggin and Oxford counties as primary natural disaster areas because of the dry summer. The agency says farmers and ranchers in Cumberland, Sagadahoc and York counties also qualify for natural disaster assistance...