Project Grant 15LFPPXMI0007

The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service awarded Makoce Agriculture Development, Inc. a $200,000 Project Grant under the Meat and Poultry Inspection Readiness Grants – Supplemental Funding program (CFDA 10.180). The grant will support Makoce in further developing its 54-foot Mobile Poultry Processing Unit to meet USDA food safety certification requirements. Funding will be used for infrastructure investments to permanently station the unit at Makoce's new 14-acre farm site in...

The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service awarded West Gardiner Beef Inc. a $150,000 Project Grant under the Meat and Poultry Inspection Readiness Grants – Supplemental Funding program (CFDA 10.180). The grant funds will support the company's efforts to expand its state-inspected slaughter and meat processing facility's capacity and begin operating under the Cooperative Interstate Shipment program. The Meat and Poultry Inspection Readiness Grants program aims to help...

Big Creek Farm LLC received a $200,000 project grant award from the US Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service under the Meat and Poultry Inspection Readiness Grants – Supplemental Funding program. The grant will support costs as the recipient undertakes improvements and planning activities necessary to obtain a Federal Grant of Inspection between September 2021 and September 2024. As a livestock processing facility, Big Creek Farm LLC will leverage this funding to advance its...

The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service awarded $178,550 under the Meat and Poultry Inspection Readiness Grants – Supplemental Funding program (CFDA 10.180) to Pasture Living LLC. The project grant funding will support costs incurred by Pasture Living LLC, located in Myersville, Maryland, as it works to obtain a Federal Grant of Inspection. Specifically, the funds will assist the company in making necessary improvements and carrying out planning activities to obtain...

Pastured Life Farm, LLC received a $200,000 Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service under the Meat and Poultry Inspection Readiness Grants – Supplemental Funding program (CFDA 10.180). The grant will support Pastured Life Farm's transition to USDA inspected status and increase its poultry processing capacity. Specifically, the funding will enable the farm to enclose its slaughter area, transition from chlorine baths to an air chiller...

The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service awarded 4 Bar M Inc. a $154,748.49 Project Grant under the Meat and Poultry Inspection Readiness Grants – Supplemental Funding program (CFDA 10.180). The grant funding will support improvements to 4 Bar M Inc.'s livestock processing facility in Greencastle, Indiana to make it USDA inspection ready and increase its annual processing capacity by over 60 animals. Specifically, the company seeks to facilitate and streamline the livestock...

Lima Family Farms Inc. received a $200,000 Project Grant award from the US Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service under the Meat and Poultry Inspection Readiness Grants – Supplemental Funding program (CFDA 10.180). The grant will support Lima Family Farms' expansion of on-farm meat processing capabilities to include pork and beef slaughter and processing for retail sale. Currently, the farm slaughters and processes its own poultry but relies on off-site USDA-inspected...

MGS Enterprises Inc. received a $200,000 Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service under the Meat and Poultry Inspection Readiness Grants – Supplemental Funding program. The grant will support MGS Enterprises' expansion of its existing meat processing facility in Kirtland, New Mexico to better serve local livestock producers and allow for the employment of up to ten additional full-time employees. MGS Enterprises, a small, family-owned...

The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service awarded Corning Meat Processing Service, Inc. a $200,000 Project Grant under the Meat and Poultry Inspection Readiness Grants – Supplemental Funding program (CFDA 10.180). The grant funds will allow the awardee to upgrade critical facility infrastructure and equipment in order to become an approved cooperative interstate shipment facility and expand sales of smoked meat products into surrounding states. Key activities to be funded...

Wheat Ridge Poultry and Meats, Inc. was awarded a $200,000 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service to expand meat and poultry inspection and slaughter and processing capabilities. The grant funding will support the awardee's efforts under the Meat and Poultry Inspection Readiness Grants – Supplemental Funding program to modernize their mobile slaughter unit and processing facility to meet USDA requirements for meat and poultry inspection....