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Butler County’s rolling farmland is receiving a significant boost from state and federal farm grant programs — bringing in new technology, preserving family farms for generations and empowering the next generation of farmers with technical and financial support.

Several farms across Butler County are set to receive or have received state-funded agricultural grants, and while they are funded through taxes the public pays, that money comes right back into the communities it came from, according to T. Lyle Ferderber, co-owner of Frankferd Farms, Frankferd Farms Milling and Frankferd Farms Foods in Clinton Township.

“If you look down the road and see a farm that made an improvement, you gained value in the community, it just didn’t come directly to you,” Ferderber said. “There is

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