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.

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.