FCS Diversity and Inclusion - PROPOSED RULE - MARCH 2011 Dear Mr. Van Meter,
I urge you to put into place a system to support local food producers.
By creating a public accessible baseline analysis of farm bill defined local food producers each FCS should create an investment goal of not less than 10% of their capital within 5 years, along with a plan to conduct outreach to these local producers and a plan providing staff development and training to FCS personnel across the full spectrum of Lending,accounting,farm transfer and business planning services and an FCA plan for how to use FCS local food producer financing to leverage other private and public capital necessary to address the larger weakness in the rest of the local/Regional; food chain