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6 <br />conducted by the Mars Hill College Center for <br />Assessment and Research Analyses. The study report <br />included infarmatian on potential. site needs for a <br />Center, potential .product lines, marketing <br />opportunities, and numerous other factors. A Center <br />would enable farmers from the region to meet local. <br />market demand for year-round locally-grown products and <br />would also operate in a complementary fashson with the <br />regional meat processing center in Caswell County. <br />The partners have already been awarded $1.3Z,oDD from <br />the NC Agricultural Development and Farmland <br />Preservation 'rust Fund, $'479, DDD from the Tobacco <br />Trust Fund Commission, and $25D,DDD from the North <br />Carolina Golden deaf Foundation for the Center. <br />For the 2DD9 General Assembly session and on behalf of <br />its five partners, orange County requests $25D,DDD, <br />including any funds available from the federal stimulus <br />package for this "shovel-ready" prod ect, for the <br />construction, startup, and operation of a Piedmont <br />Regional Value-Added shared Use Food and Agricultural <br />Processing Center; <br />