1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to agriculture; providing partial funding for 
  1.3             Farm Connect; appropriating money. 
  1.4   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.5      Section 1.  [APPROPRIATION; FARM CONNECT.] 
  1.6      $575,000 in fiscal year 2002 and $800,000 in fiscal year 
  1.7   2003 are appropriated from the general fund to the rural finance 
  1.8   authority in the department of agriculture for a grant to Farm 
  1.9   Connect for activities related to establishing links between 
  1.10  farmers and agricultural marketing opportunities.