This bill adds the following to the duties of the Commissioner of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry:
1. Ensure that federal grants designated for livestock farmers give priority to small and midsize farms;
2. Issue clear state grant application requirements and, in collaboration with stakeholders, create a process for evaluating state grants; and
3. Develop, establish and prioritize shared-use kitchen programming to enable midsize farms to build shared-use kitchen infrastructure and increase processing capability for agricultural products for personal use and local community demand.