MDARD tours west Michigan food and ag businesses

The director of Michigan’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development is continuing to meet with food and agriculture businesses to identify ways to improve supply chains.

During stops in Grand Rapids Wednesday, Gray McDowell told Brownfield the tours are about building food security and finding ways to support local food systems.

“We’re an agricultural powerhouse here in this state and we’ve got so much diversity, but a lot of it is traditional farming and the pandemic showed us we’ve got to be more resilient,” he says.

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