Governor Walz Visits Farms

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is visiting farms across the state to find out how they are being impacted by covid-19.

Today minnesota governor tim walz is visiting farms across the state to find out how they are being impacted by covid-19.

He's announcing support for agricultural producers, meat processors, and farmers.

Kimt news three's jeremy wall joins now live in studio to break down the support being funded through the federal cares act.

Jeremy-- walz austin-big mo-1 lowerthird2line talent:jeremy wall jwall@kimt.com coverage you can count on annalise tom cotter might not have been impacted as hard as other farmers but he is still eligible for funding from the feds.

Walz austin-bvo-1 lowerthird2line:governor walz stops by farms rochester, mn the fund has seven point seven million dollars to share.

Whitney place- the assistant commissioner at the minnesota department of agriculture says the state will be giving funding to local food systems, farm business scholarships, turkey and pork producers and food security grants to reimburse school summer meal programs. walz austin-bsot-1 lowerthird2line:gov.

Tim walz (dfl) minnesota there's going to be direct relief especially for those turkey and uh and hog producers and then there's local food shelf support, local substainability um there's some ag management pieces of what we learned during covid and then of course this million of that were talking about for processing walz austin-big mo-1 the care's act relief will be shared with recipients very soon.

Thank you jeremy.

The care's act was created to provide fast and direct economic assistance for american workers and familes.

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