Dunleavy administration proposes millions for biggest Alaska farming project in decades
Print article JUNEAU The administration of Gov. Mike Dunleavy is seeking $5 million for a 100,000-acre farming project west of the Interior town of Nenana. It’s one of a series of agricultural and land-development projects proposed by the governor in amendments to the annual capital budget, which funds construction and renovation projects across Alaska. Land sales in the new Nenana-Totchaket farming district could take place as soon as fall 2022, said Dave Shady, director of the Alaska Division of Agriculture, and if the project is fully developed, it would be the largest state-funded agricultural venture in Alaska since the failed Delta Barley Project of the 1970s and 1980s.