Applications are open! Submit by: July 19, 2023
USDA Department: Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS)
Application due: July 19, 2023
Grant focus: Improving capacity, modernization, and decentralization of meat processing in the United States
Awards Range: $10,000-$5 million
Match: Unknown
Intended applicants: Eligible applicants for Local MCap grants include sole proprietor businesses or other business entities (regardless of legal structure) engaged in meat and poultry processing or rendering, including Tribes and Tribal Entities, for-profit entities, non-profit entities, and State or local government entities. Private entities must be independently owned and operated, and all applicants must be domestically owned.
Summary: USDA Agricultural Marketing Service is requesting applications for Local Meat Capacity Grants (Local MCap). This program supports independently owned meat and poultry processing businesses with funds to provide more and better processing options for local livestock producers by modernizing, increasing, diversifying and decentralizing meat and poultry processing capacity, including support for rendering. Approximately $75 million is available. Processing Expansion Project grants from $100,000 up to $5 million provide funds to increase the processing and/or rendering capacity of privately, cooperatively, non-profit, or Tribally held processing facilities. Simplified Equipment-Only Projects fund grants between $10,000 and $250,000 for equipment purchases for meat and poultry processors.
