We've become aware the Michigan's governor intends to line-item veto MSUE and MAES out of existence in her quest to balance the budget. While we are in favor of balanced budgets, and realize that Michigan has a very serious problem, we do not want to see these invaluable programs cut. So I've taken the liberty of putting these talking points up on my blog so that I can (hopefully) point some twitter traffic here. For those of you who come here for cute lamb photos and news from Shady Side Farm, don't worry. We'll be back to our regular programming soon. I hope. Just another day in the life of a farmer--fending off government attacks on our livelihood... MSU Extension and Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station Impacts • The $64 million in state funding for MAES and MSUE leverages $148 million in contracts and grants and similar funds and generated a total economic impact $1.062 billion . These two funding lines generate $2.33 for every $1 provided by the state. ...
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