MY FRIENDLY E-MAIL LETTER OF INQUIRY TODAY TO A HIGH-RANKING OFFICIAL OF THE UTAH DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

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From: John McMillan <mcmillanj@att.net>

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Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2022, 03:32:08 PM CDT

Subject: 4-13-22 Does Utah have a strategy for increased crop production from plants native to Utah?

To: Utah Department of Agriculture Public Information Officer Bailee Woolstenhulme.

Office phone number: 1-385-320-2140.

April 13, 2022

Dear Public Information Officer Woolstenhulme,

As you must be very aware, Utah reportedly has long been the second-driest state in the entire United States. 

Recent multi-decade exacerbation of Utah's already-dry conditions from the Global Warming Effect is reportedly occurring during an also-recent multi-year period of rapid population growth here in the Beehive State.

Has your first-rate Utah Department of Agriculture begun a program to encourage farmers throughout Utah to raise and sell  crops in our state that are native to Utah and therefore require no or only minimal irrigation?

If so, which native plants of Utah is your first-rate state agency urging farmers of Utah to grow or begin growing?

With Friendly Best Wishes,

former full-time daily newspaper reporter and current Salt Lake County restaurant-industry support-staff employee John Kevin McMillan.

My current rental-home address: 6819 South 1300 East, Cottonwood Heights, UT 84121.

Home phone: (801) 942-2122.

Cell phone: (512) 993-7305.

E-mail: mcmillanj@att.net

John Kevin McMillan