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The state’s ag industry mobilized to provide aid and the state bought feed, but ranchers need rain to grow grass soon.

That same fateful day, a couple of farmers, a troop of cowboys and fire crews were all that stood between a Waimea wildfire and potential catastrophe.

.The new director has a vision for community-focused innovative farming.

Kaleo Manuel was given another job in DLNR while officials investigate what happened.

A dispute over whether DLNR balked at releasing water to land owners played out in an exchange of angry letters in the days after the fire.

Of the $3 million allotted to the federal program last year, farmers in Hawaii received over $1.2 million.

The department said it is taking an ‘all-hands-on-deck approach’ to the issue.

Food accounts for roughly 19% of all the trash thrown out in the county, which lacks a municipal composting facility.

Several residents had complained last year about the cloud of dust that occasionally blanketed Central Maui.

For the state, the purchase was a “huge victory” for the environment. For Brendan Balthazar, it was a devastating loss of agricultural land.