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Chia: Have your pet and eat it, too (?) Kentucky Ag Development Fund Board makes grant to Franklin, Simpson County, KY, firm to study market development and feasibility for processing chia for food If any reader has a good Chia Pet photo (and an interesting caption (Maybe your landlord wouldn't let you have a kitten of the animal kingdom, f'rinstance) please share. Click for full story, the famous Chia Pet Commercial-CM Special ColumbiaMagazine.com Story News of Kentucky State Government When the Kentucky Agricultural Development Fund Board met in Frankfort, KY, Friday, the panel, chaired by Gov. Steve Beshear, handed out $5,586,102 for 14 agricultural diversification projects on Friday, December 14, 2012, there was this one especially noticeable: $33,850 Chia Feasibility StudyChia brings to mind, for many of us, an earlier age, the novelty "Chia Pet," which, as if by magic, grew "fur" of greenery. It was a staple of Tv sales people for years. It's still around, but the product line has expanded to include dogs, cats and more. And, while it's not the hot fad it once was, people still buy them. Apparently, the plant has served as a very important food source through the ages. According to the Chia entry in Wikipedia it once was as important as maize in the Aztec culture. And now it may find a place as an important crop in Kentucky. There's what appears to be a delightful dessert, Chia Seed Pudding, at this link: Chia Seed Pudding, but a quick look for Chia Wine was not readily found. Chia pets are available on Amazon: Chia Pet Handmade Decorative Planter, Puppy, 1 Kit 
Kentucky Specialty Grains LLC Company, the recipient of grant, at 1875 Kummer Rd Franklin, KY, 42134 United States (270) 586-8066, is located just over 100 miles west of Columbia, KY. The entire list of grants - none of which were specifically targeted to agriculture in Adair, Casey, Cumberland, Green, Metcalfe, Russell or Adair Counties - is as follows: $1,863,900 Statewide Dairy Marketing The Kentucky Dairy Development Council Inc. was approved for $1,863,900 in state funds to be disbursed over two years to continue educating and promoting Kentucky's dairy producers and the dairy industry as a whole, including the Market Incentive Leadership for Kentucky (MILK) program. $1,580,947 Statewide Livestock Marketing Program The Kentucky Beef Network was approved for $1,580,947 in state funds to be disbursed over two years to continue training beef cattlemen to produce and market a quality product at a reasonable and sustainable profit through new programs such as Professional Cattlemen and Young Cattlemen/Farm Link, along with continuing programs like Marketing Communications, Master Cattleman and more. $1,325,000 Horticultural Crop Production & Marketing The Kentucky Horticulture Council was approved for a total of $1,325,000 in state funds to be disbursed over two years to continue work in the expansion and profitability of horticulture crop producers through on-farm demonstrations, consultations, development of marketing systems, market research and more. $33,850 Chia Feasibility Study Kentucky Specialty Grains LLC was approved for $33,850 in state funds to conduct a study on the market development and feasibility of processing chia for seed, oil, meal and flour. The County Agricultural Investment Program (CAIP) is designed to provide farmers with incentives to allow them to improve and diversify their current production practices. CAIP covers a wide variety of agricultural enterprises in its 11 investment areas. Three CAIPs were approved by the board totaling $430,842 for Johnson, Madison and Ohio counties. In addition to these new approvals, an additional $308,237 was approved to supplement existing CAIPs in the following counties: Fayette, Franklin and Lewis. The Deceased Farm Animal Removal Program serves as a measure to facilitate the coordination of environmentally sound and cost-effective disposal of deceased livestock for Kentucky producers. Two County Deceased Farm Animal Removal Programs were approved for Clark and Hart counties totaling $15,000. The Shared-use Equipment Program is designed to benefit a high number of producers who cannot justify ownership expenses associated with certain equipment by helping them access technology necessary to improve their operations in an economical manner. Two Shared-use Equipment Programs were approved by the board in the amount of $28,326 for Clay and Franklin counties. Gov. Steve Beshear and the Kentucky General Assembly continue to make great strides toward lessening Kentucky's dependence on tobacco production while revitalizing the farm economy by investing 50 percent of Kentucky's Master Settlement Agreement into the Kentucky Agricultural Development Fund. To date, Kentucky has invested more than $390 million in an array of county, regional and state projects designed to increase net farm income and create sustainable new farm-based business enterprises. These funding approvals, made possible by the Kentucky Agricultural Development Fund, represent just a few of the more than 4,000 projects approved, since the inception of the program in January 2001. This story was posted on 2012-12-15 04:07:40
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