The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection’s (DATCP) Meat Processor Infrastructure Grant (MPIG) Program strives to grow Wisconsin’s meat industry and improve the long-term viability of the livestock sector through services to meat processing facilities.
Donor Name: Wisconsin Department of Agriculture Trade and Consumer Protection
State: Wisconsin
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant | Reimbursement
Deadline: 02/24/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
Meat Processor Infrastructure Grants are available to new or existing processors to facilitate changes and expansion to grow harvest capacity and/or increase product throughput.
Funding Information
Funds will be distributed through a competitive review process. Grants will be awarded in amounts up to $50,000 and for two years in duration. This is a reimbursement grant.
Project Period
- Anticipated Project Start Date: May 1, 2025
- Project End Date: April 30, 2027.
Eligible Projects
The DATCP Meat Processor Infrastructure Grant is designed to provide access to services and resources for proposed meat processing facility projects that grow or develop the current business’s harvest or throughput capacity, improve production or profitability, and/or help the processor address capacity and/or production bottlenecks and challenges. Projects could include multiple aspects from the following areas:
- Increasing the facility’s harvest capacity by 20 percent or more per year.
- Increasing meat or meat product production that shows a benefit to harvest capacity within the supply chain.
- Increasing the facility’s efficiency.
- Improving the competitive position of the Wisconsin meat sector.
- Creating employment in the Wisconsin meat sector.
Eligible Criteria
Applicants must satisfy the following criteria to be deemed eligible for funding under the Meat Processor Infrastructure Grant Program. An applicant must:
- Operate a DATCP or United States Department of Agriculture-licensed meat processing facility located in Wisconsin and be engaged in livestock harvesting or 2025 Meat Processor Infrastructure Grant Request for Proposals.
- A meat processing facility is defined in s. 93.68(1), Wis. Stats., as “a plant or premises where animals are slaughtered for human consumption, or where meat or meat products are processed.”
- Rendering plants are not eligible for this program.
- Have a project that will increase harvest capacity, either directly or by increasing meat product production that increases harvest capacity upstream in the supply chain.
- Priority may be given to projects that directly increase harvest capacity.
- Have no outstanding state or federal penalties or violations and be in good standing with Wisconsin Department of Revenue, Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions, DATCP and USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service.
- DATCP employees and their immediate family members (parents, siblings, spouses, and children) are not eligible to receive grants.
For more information, visit WDATCP.
