The project's purpose is to significantly enhance pork production and marketing opportunities for a group of 20 disadvantaged farm families in central missouri

A european designed slaughter facility was completed in december, 2019 in rural osage county by farmer owned ozark plateau pork, LLC (OPP), the needs of the facility and the objectives of this grant are 1) to increase capacity, flow and efficiency by purchasing carcass cooling and product freezing modular equipment, 2) to improve shelf life, traceability and retail sales by purchasing form-filled packaging equipment and labeling accessory and 3) develop and implement all required plans and protocols to obtain a federal grant of inspection.fulfilling these objectives will allow for the interstate sales and shipment of pork throughout the united states and assure the highest safety and quality standards. The company's leadership has built tremendous marketing relationships ozark during the past 20 years with a focus on organic, non-GMO, pasture based, antibiotic free pork. IT plans to develop the local and regional retail and food service markets as well as launching a home delivery program. The facility was built for a capacity of 50 pork carcasses weekly but has market demand for 300 niche hogs weekly.a strong team to perform the project's work has been identified and secured including project manager russ kremer. Kremer, former president of the missouri pork producers association, was the founder of heritage foods, the most prominent supplier of non-GMO project verified pork in the country. RON meek, former harvest supervisor for seaboard foods, is the production manager. Karla klingner manages business and market development. She has previously held prominent positions with US senator kit bond and mcleod, watkinson and miller agriculture law firm.