2022 Meat Slaughter & Processing Business Development Grants
Grant Overview
- Award amounts $50,000 - $100,000
- Project focus areas:
- Business growth
- Larger facility to increase production, processing and/or distribution, address known existing bottlenecks;
- Market development: developing marketing plans and/or sales strategies;
- Equipment infrastructure;
- Research and development;
- Operations logistics;
- Growth strategy: new or expansion of current efforts, expanding consumer outreach and/or expansion of existing marketing strategy
- Workforce training to benefit the broader industry
- On the job training or apprenticeship opportunities;
- HCAAP (food safety) plans and implementation;
- Inventory, procurement, and pricing management;
- Basic meat cutting and cured meat operation, cut and wrap for case-ready products, value-added processing;
- Product development, sales, and marketing skills training;
- Local Meat Processing: farmer to processor to buyer, direct to eater market, etc.
- Business growth
Awarded Projects
Addison County
Vermont Livestock and Slaughter Processing Company
$100,000 for facility renovation.
Bennington County
Southshire Meats, LLC
$74,761 for improvements and expansion of Higley Hill processing facility in Wilmington.
Caledonia County
Northeast Kingdom Processing
$104,028 for safety and efficiency upgrades for slaughter floor and smokehouse.
Chittenden County
Adam's Turkey Farm
$100,000 for farm modernization and expansion.
Rutland County
Haystack Farmstead
$95,259 for a modular meat plant.
Washington County
Babette's Table
$95,345 for smokehouse and packaging machine for increased capacity and efficiency for smoke pork products and expansion for hog farms in Vermont.
Windsor County
Royalton Meats
$50,032 for expanding smokehouse operations through training.