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On Dec. 10, the United States Department of Agriculture Rural Development division (USDARD) unveiled that it is disbursing $532,000 to seven rural organizations across the state to boost Oregon agriculture. Among them, one Douglas County organization took home nearly half of those funds for its next major project. The organization in question is the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians, which netted $250,000 to fund a feasibility study, business plan and design for a new meat processing fac