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Emergency loan fund helps western Massachusetts farms impacted by last summer's record rains

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Paul Tuthill
Published March 18, 2022 at 11:38 AM EDT
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A record amount of rain in July 2021 turned a lot of farm fields in western Massachusetts to mud.

Since its inception, the CISA fund has loaned out nearly $500,000

Zero-interest loans have been awarded to help several farms in western Massachusetts impacted by last summer’s extreme weather.

A total of $110,000 is being loaned to seven farms from an emergency fund administered by Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture.

Phil Korman, executive director of the South Deerfield-based organization spoke with WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill.

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Paul Tuthill
Paul Tuthill is WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief. He’s been covering news, everything from politics and government corruption to natural disasters and the arts, in western Massachusetts since 2007. Before joining WAMC, Paul was a reporter and anchor at WRKO in Boston. He was news director for more than a decade at WTAG in Worcester. Paul has won more than two dozen Associated Press Broadcast Awards. He won an Edward R. Murrow award for reporting on veterans’ healthcare for WAMC in 2011. Born and raised in western New York, Paul did his first radio reporting while he was a student at the University of Rochester.
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