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Hemp grant deadline this Friday for Mendota-area hemp farms · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Hemp grant deadline this Friday for Mendoda area hemp farms.
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  Speaker 1: Written by Matthias Werner, this article is being read by
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  Speaker 1: an automated voice brought to you by Everlett Industrial Hemp.
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  Speaker 1: Regenerative Innovation for Sustainable Enterprises has invited interested local farmers
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  Speaker 1: to help with a grant application from the United States
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  Speaker 1: Department of Agriculture. We're working hard to bring together as
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  Speaker 1: many opportunities as possible to make this something worth trying
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  Speaker 1: to really bring new resources to the area. I RISE
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  Speaker 1: founder Kelly Burke said, the main goal of this application
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  Speaker 1: that we're going after is to fund the farmer. The
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  Speaker 1: Conservation Innovation grant, according to i RISE, focuses on industrial
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  Speaker 1: hemp production, conservation practices, producer participation, data collection, and regional
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  Speaker 1: agricultural infrastructure. I DREISE has been working with farmers in
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  Speaker 1: the Mendota area to create a hub for business with
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  Speaker 1: industrial hemp, and the grant is the latest chance for
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  Speaker 1: farmers to take advantage. This is us carrying out and
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  Speaker 1: executing what we had told everyone we wanted to do.
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  Speaker 1: Burke said, we're working very hard to make it very
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  Speaker 1: financially advantageous and provide support to ensure their farmer's success,
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  Speaker 1: The company is asking interested farmers to submit a memorandum
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  Speaker 1: of understanding to help improve the chances that the grant
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  Speaker 1: is awarded. The grant seeks out farmers that have access
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  Speaker 1: to at least twenty acres of Farm Service Agency registered farmland,
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  Speaker 1: are willing to meet applicable project reporting and eligibility requirements
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  Speaker 1: if selected, and submit the completed memorandum by its deadline
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  Speaker 1: of eleven am Friday, July twenty fourth. The grand application
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  Speaker 1: process has eighty available spots. Priority consideration will be given
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  Speaker 1: to farmers with land located within about seventy five miles
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  Speaker 1: of Mendota, near practical Illinois River barjacks, and along er
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  Speaker 1: with reasonable access to a rail route serving Mendota. Farmers
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  Speaker 1: located outside the nearly seventy five mile radius still can
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  Speaker 1: submit a memorandum if their farmland has a practical transportation
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  Speaker 1: or logistics connection to the proposed project. According to the company,
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  Speaker 1: applicants outside the seventy five mile radius should identify the
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  Speaker 1: applicable rail route, barge terminal, river access point, or other
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  Speaker 1: relevant transportation connection in their submission. Burke said she hopes
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  Speaker 1: that the community support IgE rise has seen with this
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  Speaker 1: project so far carries into this and future opportunities. The
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  Speaker 1: most important thing with this partnership is having a relationship
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  Speaker 1: with the community that is mission critical. Burke said. When
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  Speaker 1: you talk about these grant applications, they're going to evaluate
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  Speaker 1: us as a team, and ultimately, what we really love
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  Speaker 1: is the energy from the people involved with the city
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  Speaker 1: and from the farmers who are real excited about this opportunity.