MASC Work Session in Rochester: Olmsted County Farm Services Office
Tue, Jan 07
|Olmsted County Farm Services Office
This drop-in work session at the Olmsted County USDA Office is to help all growers complete the paperwork to apply for the MASC program payment for 2025 crops. Snacks and drinks provided!
Time & Location
Jan 07, 2025, 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Olmsted County Farm Services Office, 3555 9th St NW, Rochester, MN 55901, USA
About the event
Calling all Specialty Crop Growers!
Do you grow vegetables, flowers, mushrooms, seeds, Christmas trees, nursery stock, honey, hops, maple sap, or any other specialty or niche crop for market? Have you heard about the MASC program? This is a rare opportunity being offered through the USDA to get some financial support for these efforts in 2025, but the application period ends January 8. Get help filling out the forms and learn more about what you’ll need to complete an application.
The event is being hosted by Valerie Djuissi of the Village Agricultural Cooperative and Sara George of Renewing the Countryside. They will assist USDA staff in helping get specialty crop growers signed up for the MASC program payment.
For more information contact sara@rtcinfo.org or 715-651-5046
WHAT IS MASC?
The Marketing Assistance for Specialty Crops (MASC) program provides financial assistance to specialty crop producers to help them expand domestic markets or develop…