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state Division of Forestry.
“Research, education and marketing initiatives are our number one priorities,” Mr. Delano said. “We’ve had level funding for too many years in the first two (areas), and we’ve just begun to show some interest in marketing.”
Mr. Delano said that 92,000 farmers represented by the VFBF are not satisfied with Gov. Baliles’ recommendation that state lottery profits fund his proposed farmers’ market system. “That would be second choice. A lottery is an unknown. We don’t know how much money it will raise, and it would be better to commit now toward the development of a farmers’ market system than it would be to wait and see what the lottery does.”
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