Per the Wisconsin Cheese Makers Associatio, successful applicants will receive reimbursement grants for as much as $15,000.

The agency said it would fund more than $12 million to expand independent processing capacity in Ohio, Michigan and Minnesota using an expansion program grant.

Twenty Pennsylvania meat and poultry processors were the recipients of $1.58 million in reimbursement grants.

Goffle Road Poultry Farm, based in Wyckoff, NJ, received $4.2 million from the US Department of Agriculture as part of the more than $223 million grants and loans distributed nationwide to smaller, independent processors.

Acting on a directive from the Biden-Harris administration, the US Department of Agriculture is offering more than $223 million in grants and loans toward growing competition and expanding meat and poultry processing capacity in the United States.

As part of the US Department of Agriculture’s $223 million investment in meat and poultry processing capacity, Saline River Farms LLC and USDA officials announced on Nov. 2 the company’s intent to build an 83,000-square-foot plant in Southern Illinois.

The Northeast Dairy Business Innovation Center announced five dairy processors are set to receive a total of $1.1 million in funding through the Dairy Product Packaging Innovation Grant.

The Nebraska Department of Agriculture (NDA) announced a total of nearly $5 million of grants given to 64 local meat processing facilities. 

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is awarding $600,000 in grants to three Maine meat and poultry processors, announced Congresswoman Chellie Pingree on Aug. 31.

Producer Owned Beef LLC, a US beef processing facility owned by cattle producers and operated by beef processing industry veterans, received $12.232 million from the Texas Enterprise Fund.