{"id":127012,"date":"2020-09-15T11:04:02","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T21:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=127012"},"modified":"2020-09-16T07:55:09","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T17:55:09","slug":"uh-helps-maui-ranchers-stay-in-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/09\/15\/uh-helps-maui-ranchers-stay-in-business\/","title":{"rendered":"UH agent helps Maui community get fed, and local ranchers stay in business"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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One of the many cattle ranches on Maui that Caires serves<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa\u2019s College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources<\/a> Extension Agent Kyle Caires<\/strong> is helping the Maui community get fed, and livestock producers who have been directly impacted by the coronavirus pandemic stay in business. Caires along with Maui County Mayor Michael Victorino and others, announced Feed My Sheep<\/a>, a new CARES<\/abbr> Act-funded partnership with local ranchers to provide ground beef to people in need. <\/p>\n

Caires helped facilitate the county\u2019s commitment of $200,000 to support the ranching community, and the purchase of cattle from independent ranchers. About 1,000 pounds of ground beef, per week, will be processed and distributed to individuals, nonprofits and community feeding programs.<\/p>\n

Beginning on Monday, September 14, the program received Maui County approval to expand the ground beef purchase program to the island of Molokaʻi<\/span> to support their ranchers and local harvest facility.<\/p>\n

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Kyle Caires<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Another program that is helping Maui ranchers is the Livestock Producer Assistance Program<\/a> (LPAP<\/abbr>), an initiative of the Maui County Farm Bureau, which has awarded more than $12,000 in funds to 19 livestock producers on Maui and Molokaʻi<\/span> whose families represent agricultural production on 9,345 acres of land, totaling more than 1,500 cows, 980 hogs, 670 goats, 150 sheep, 70 horses and 330 laying hens.<\/p>\n