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Funding Available to Increase Competitiveness of Delaware Specialty Crops

The Delaware Department of Agriculture is now accepting proposals for the 2025 Specialty Crop Block Grant Program. The federal Farm Bill is allotting approximately $340,000 through a competitive grant process to fund innovative projects supporting specialty crops and creating new and better markets for the Delaware specialty crop industry. The Department will accept applications through 4:30 p.m. (EST) on June 24, 2025.

Please note this deadline varies significantly from previous years’ requirements, allowing only a 20-day lead time for submission. We appreciate the challenge this short turnaround may create, but it’s needed to meet USDA timelines for this year’s grants.

Source : delaware.gov

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It's summertime in Minnesota as a yellow Air Tractor agricultural application aircraft -- a crop duster -- responds to the control inputs of its pilot in a low-altitude dance just above the tops of the cornstalks. Enjoy! And we found a Bell 206 Long Ranger spray helicopter perched on a support truck at the edge of the cornfields, and launching from there. In our video, you can occasionally hear the rotor sounds of the crop-dusting helicopter as we see the yellow Air Tractor in a nearby field.