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Journal Staff A Bombardier is used to groom a trail on the Noquemanon Trail Network to make it easier for users to navigate the area. (Photo courtesy of the Noquemanon Trail Network) MARQUETTE — The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development has awarded 20 Rural Development Fund grants designed to promote the sustainability of land-based industries and support infrastructure that benefits rural communities. Several of those grants were awarded to local entities. “Rural Michigan isn’t some strange, faraway, uninhabited land,” said MDARD Director Gary McDowell, in a news r...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A statewide referendum will be held to determine whether the...

ABC 10/CW5 LANSING — The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD) has awarded 20 Rural Development Fund Grants designed to promote the sustainability of land-based industries and support infrastructure that benefits rural communities. “Rural Michigan isn’t some strange, faraway, uninhabited land,” said MDARD Director Gary McDowell. “Most of the people in this great state are either from or currently live in rural areas, so these grants have a real impact on the lives of people we know and in communities not far from our own. Rural Michigan has unlimited poten...

Manistee resident among appointments to Migrant Labor Housing Advisory Board   Compiled by Michelle Graves, mgraves@pioneergroup.com Feb. 10, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail LANSING — The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Director Gary McDowell appointed 14 members to the Migrant Labor Housing Advisory Board this month. The appointees represent five agriculture seats, five migrant labor seats and four seats from other migrant agricultural worker related organizations. The board will advise the department and the state on ways to alleviate obstacles in the development of ...

gjaehnig@mininggazette.com LANSING — On Wednesday, the Michigan House Agriculture Committee conducted a hearing in order for its members, as Chairwoman Julie Alexander put it, “to better understand the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD)’s role” in Michigan’s Public Act 92 of 2000, more commonly referred to as the Michigan Food Law. Gary McDowell, MDARD director, and MDARD Food and Dairy Division Director, Tim Slawinski, provided the committee an overview of that department’s background, accomplishments, missions, as well as actions during the emergen...