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USDA Announces $7.4M Grant for Agriculture Innovation

USDA seeks applications for grants to help rural businesses produce and market value-added products:

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is accepting applications for grants to establish and operate Agriculture Innovation Centers. USDA is making $7.4 million available under the Agriculture Innovation Center Program. Agriculture Innovation Centers may use the grants to provide technical assistance to help agricultural producers develop and market value-added agricultural products using a variety of options, except joint marketing efforts. The centers may provide the following types of assistance:

financial advisory services to develop, expand or operate a business owned by an agricultural producer;
process development services, such as engineering, production system scale ups, scale production assessments and systems development;
organizational assistance, including legal and technical advisory services;
outreach assistance;
technical assistance for product development, excluding research and development; and
technical assistance for applied research to develop and operate processes and systems to produce and market value-added agricultural products.

The application deadline is September 27, 2021. State governments are among the eligible applicants.

For More Info:

See the Grants.gov announcement

See page 33969 of June 28 Federal Register.

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Breeze Airways Officially Launches Service At Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport

Breeze Airways formally launched operations at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, or MSY, with the arrival of a Breeze flight from Huntsville, Alabama.

Breeze Airways CEO David Neeleman joined with state and local officials to celebrate the new service in New Orleans. In May, Breeze Airways announced the development of an operations base at MSY, with a capital investment of $6.6 million and the creation of 261 new direct jobs, with an average salary of $65,000, plus benefits.

Breeze’s formal launch of service marks the start of flights connecting New Orleans with Huntsville; Norfolk and Richmond, Virginia; Oklahoma City and Tulsa, Oklahoma; Akron/Canton, Ohio; Charleston, South Carolina; Louisville, Kentucky; and Bentonville/Fayetteville, Arkansas. Service between New Orleans and Columbus, Ohio, began on July 16.

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