Nine Wisconsin meat processors will receive Meat Processor Infrastructure grants. These grants help local meat processors with projects to modernize and grow their businesses, produce new products, or expand their markets, while improving profitability and sustaining the long-term viability of Wisconsin’s meat processing facilities.
In the 2023-25 Biennial Budget, a total of $250,000 was available for this round of the Meat Processor Infrastructure Grant Program, with a maximum of $50,000 allowed for each project. Grant recipients are required to provide a match of 100 percent of the grant amount. DATCP received 51 grant requests totaling more than $2.2 million.
The Meat Processor Infrastructure Grant recipients and their planned projects are:
- Almena Meat Company Inc. in Barron County: Purchase new efficient carcass cooler, doubling carcass storage space.
- Good News Farm LLC in Pepin County: Purchase equipment to become an official poultry harvest establishment.
- Brock’s Butcher Block in Monroe County: Purchase rollstock machine to alleviate harvest bottleneck.
- County Pride Meats in Rock County: Expand building to include more retail space and new sausage room.
- Malterer Meats in Dodge County: Purchase new Poly-clip machine to increase efficiency.
- 45 Meats LLC in Langlade County: Purchase mixer/grinder and scale to increase efficiency.
- Hickory Hills Country Meats LLC in Calumet County: Purchase equipment to increase harvest capacity.
- Butcher Block 66 in Portage County: Expand freezer and hot water system to increase harvest capacity.
- Hickerson Meats & Processing LLC in Burnett County: Build new a processing and retail area.
Learn more about the meat processor grants: https://datcp.wi.gov/Pages/AgDevelopment/MeatAndLivestockDevelopment.aspx
