艾奥瓦州两家肉企获217.1万美元联邦拨款扩产：上艾奥瓦牛肉公司获200万美元
美国农业部11月2日宣布，艾奥瓦州两家肉类加工企业获得共计217.1万美元联邦拨款，用于扩大加工能力。
这笔拨款来自肉类与家禽加工扩建项目（MPPEP）。副总统与农业部长 Brooke Rollins 此前宣布，全美40个州的加工企业将通过该项目获得共计5700万美元。该项目由农业部农村发展局下属的农村商业合作服务局管理，农业部表示，项目迄今已向独立企业发放超过2亿美元。
其中，位于艾奥瓦州豪沃德县莱姆斯普林斯市（Lime Springs）的上艾奥瓦牛肉公司（Upper Iowa Beef）获得200万美元。这家独立拥有的牛肉屠宰加工企业于2017年开业，将用拨款处理屠宰、副产品与仓储等环节的关键瓶颈。
位于艾奥瓦州波伊希克县马尔科姆市（Malcom）的代顿肉类产品公司（Dayton Meat Products）获得171459美元，将用于购置和安装肉类加工设备，扩大增值加工能力，缓解关键生产瓶颈，提高效率、食品安全和产品一致性，并为独立畜牧生产者和代加工客户增加机会。
（来源：美国农业部）
Two Iowa Meat Processors Win $2.171 Million in Federal Grants; Upper Iowa Beef Gets $2 Million
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced on November 2 that two Iowa meat processors will receive a combined $2.171 million in federal grants to expand processing capacity.
The grants come through the Meat and Poultry Processing Expansion Program (MPPEP). Vice President J.D. Vance and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins previously announced that processors in 40 states would receive $57 million through the program. It is administered by the Rural Business-Cooperative Service of USDA Rural Development, and the department says it has awarded more than $200 million to independent businesses under MPPEP to date.
Upper Iowa Beef, an independently owned beef harvest and processing facility in Lime Springs, Howard County, which opened in 2017, received $2 million to address key bottlenecks in harvest, offal and byproducts, and warehousing.
Dayton Meat Products, in Malcom, Poweshiek County, received $171,459 to purchase and install meat processing equipment, expand value-added capacity, relieve a key production bottleneck, and improve efficiency, food safety and product consistency while increasing opportunities for independent livestock producers and toll-processing customers.
(Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture)
来源：美国农业部
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图片来源：图：屠宰加工场景（资料图）。Sarumakame 摄，CC BY-SA 4.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: Inside a slaughterhouse (file photo). By Sarumakame, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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