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Tractor Supply Awards $850,000 in Grants Through Partnership With American Farmland Trust
In honor of the Company’s 85th anniversary, 85 farmers and farm families receive $10,000 grants to support agricultural efforts BRENTWOOD, Tenn.--(BUSINESS
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nIn honor of the Company’s 85th anniversary, 85 farmers and farm families receive $10,000 grants to support agricultural efforts\n\n\n BRENTWOOD, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nTractor Supply Company (NASDAQ: TSCO), the largest rural lifestyle retailer in the United States, and American Farmland Trust (AFT) announced today the recipients of AFT’s Brighter Future Fund grants. Through the fund, 110 farmers and farm families will each receive a grant of up to $10,000 to help them improve, maintain, expand and advance their farms.\n\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231011499867/en/Tractor Supply Awards $850,000 in Grants Through Partnership With American Farmland Trust (Photo: Business Wire)\nThe grant award announcement comes on the eve of National Farmer’s Day on October 12, recognizing the importance of America’s famers. This year, 85 of the 110 Brighter Future Fund grants were made possible through Tractor Supply’s $850,000 donation in honor of the company’s 85th anniversary. The Company’s anniversary is also being commemorated with a special nationwide 85th anniversary sale during the week of October 16.\n\n\nAFT received 1,522 applicants from 48 states during the application period, an all-time high and nearly double the prior year’s applications. Priority was given to applicants who are starting their agricultural pursuits, veterans, socially disadvantaged, women or have limited resources. Funding was allocated for both professional services and equipment or infrastructure costs, with focus areas including improving farm viability, accessing farmland and adopting regenerative agricultural practices.\n\n\n“Tractor Supply’s 85th anniversary donation to AFT is demonstration of our ongoing commitment to agriculture across the nation,” said Mary Winn Pilkington, president of the Tractor Supply Company Foundation. “Farmers and farm families are the backbone of our country and the communities we serve. These 85 grant recipients fill us with tremendous optimism about the future of Life Out Here, and we are excited to see how these grants move their farms forward.”\n\n\nThis year’s grant recipients include:\n\n\n\nDaphne Bicaise of Daphodill Farm in Texas, a recent full-time farmer who currently grows vegetables with plans to add fresh-cut flowers and fruits in t...