Rep. Hogan is proud to represent farms in the Third Middlesex District, many of which are family-owned. Her support for farms in the Commonwealth ranges from sponsoring a bill that reformed the process for valuing and preserving family farms so they could remain intact and in the family to filing legislation to establish a 21st Century Farms Commission, which will investigate the present-day and future needs of agriculture in the Commonwealth with the goal of ensuring our farms can adapt to changing economic, climate and energy conditions.
As part of the legislation that established the Commission, Rep. Hogan called for a simplified grant application for farms overseen by the Massachusetts Department of Agriculture Resources.