The Price Ventures LLC dba Five Mile Farms received a $200,000 project grant award from the US Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service on September 30, 2021 to support their operations through September 29, 2024.
The grant funding will assist Five Mile Farms in making improvements and carrying out planning activities to obtain a Federal "Grant of Inspection" under the Federal Meat Inspection Act. This will allow the organization to increase their meat processing capacity for small and beginning farmers in the Kansas City area who raise batches of poultry under 100 birds. The Meat and Poultry Inspection Readiness Grants – Supplemental Funding program (CFDA 10.180) aims to expand local meat and poultry processing access for these producers through facility upgrades that achieve federal inspection standards. The award will help address higher demand for locally-raised meat in the region compared to current limited processing availability.