Meat and Poultry Processing Expansion Program
Department Of Agriculture, Rural Business Cooperative Service
USDA is making grant funding available to meat and poultry processors for start-up and expansion. The objective is to provide more and better processing options to producers as soon as possible.
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Helps businesses involved in meat and poultry processing get funding for their operations. This includes money for slaughtering and further processing activities.
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What Benefits Are Offered?
Provides competitive grant funding (up to $1 million or 50% of project costs, whichever is less) for eligible meat and poultry processors to expand capacity. Specifically for Phase 3, funding is targeted at processing wild-caught invasive catfish. Grants can cover purchasing/upgrading various equipment (processing, manufacturing, composting, packaging, labeling), automating functions, ensuring food safety, reducing emissions, facility improvements, compliance with safety requirements, and staffing/operational costs directly tied to the project. A 50% cost share of total project costs is required.
Who Is Eligible?
Industries: meat processing, poultry processing, seafood processing, catfish processing
Region: United States
Other Criteria: currently process seafood or wild-caught catfish for commercial markets, in business for more than one year, operate or plan to operate under a grant of inspection from USDA to process invasive, wild-caught catfish subject to the FMIA, plan to increase processing capacity for invasive, wild-caught catfish at their existing facility, have a State Aquatic Nuisance Species or Invasive Species management plan that includes catfish, current and active registration in the System for Award Management (SAM)
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This program offers funding up to $1,000,000 (minimum $250,000).
This program accepts applications on a rolling basis.
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