Bill Text: MN SF2304 | 2013-2014 | 88th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: University of Minnesota (U of M) forever green agriculture initiative appropriation

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-03-20 - Author added Scalze [SF2304 Detail]

Download: Minnesota-2013-SF2304-Introduced.html

1.1A bill for an act
1.2relating to agriculture finance; appropriating money for the Forever Green
1.3Agriculture Initiative at the University of Minnesota.
1.4BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5    Section 1. APPROPRIATION.
1.6$1,395,000 in fiscal year 2015 is appropriated from the general fund to the
1.7commissioner of agriculture for a grant to the Board of Regents of the University of
1.8Minnesota to fund the Forever Green Agriculture Initiative and protect the state's natural
1.9resources while increasing the efficiency, profitability, and productivity of Minnesota
1.10farmers by incorporating perennial and winter-annual crops into existing agricultural
1.11practices.
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