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To All Interested Parties, Note: The bill is located The 2008 Farm Bill contained various changes to the Farm Storage Facility Loan program. The addition of cold storage is at the Secretary's discretion. Public meetings, for public comments, were held April 14, 2009 in Kansas City, KS and on April 15, 2009 in Cleveland, OH. There weren't any fruit or vegetable growers at the meetings, so there was no input on the need for cold storage. Public comments will be received through May 13, 2009. Comments pay be submitted by: * By mail: FSFL PEA, Geo-Marine Incorporated, 2713 Magruder Blvd, Suite D, Hampton, VA 23666-1572 * By Internet: http://public.geo-marine.com There is a copy of the Federal Register containing the information pertaining to the FSFL program on the home page of the Michigan Organic web site: www.MichiganOrganic.msu.edu Pat Turkington Chief Price Support Specialist Michigan State Farm Service Agency 517-324-5106 Vicki Morrone Organic Vegetable and Crop Outreach Specialist Michigan State University C.S. Mott Group for Sustainable Food Systems 303 Natural Resources Bldg. East Lansing, MI 48824 517-353-3542 517-282-3557 (cell) 517-353-3834 (fax) For information on organic agriculture production please visit: http://www.MichiganOrganic.msu.edu/ P Please consider the environment before printing this email If you would like to access previous postings to the Mich-Organic listserv you can copy and paste the following URL into your browser address bar http://list.msu.edu/archives/mich-organic.html