(COLUMBUS)—Ohio Treasurer Kevin Boyce today announced that Ohio farmers can now apply for 2009 funding assistance through the Treasury’s Agricultural Linked Deposit Program (Ag-Link). Participating banks throughout the state will begin accepting applications for the competitive program today through March 13, 2009.

In front of an audience of state leaders, supporters and the new Treasurer’s young family, Boyce said that the values he learned growing up in difficult circumstances are the ones that will guide him in the Ohio Treasury.