农业部投资近390万美元扩密苏里州肉类加工：8个项目获资助，最大一笔170万美元
美国农业部（USDA）农村发展署密苏里州主任 Ben Baker 11月3日在 Columbia 宣布，农业部将通过肉类与家禽加工扩能计划（Meat and Poultry Processing Expansion Program，MPPEP）第四期，向位于美国密苏里州的8个肉类加工项目投资近390万美元，帮助独立加工商扩充产能。
获资助的8个项目中，金额最大的是 Bates 县 Passaic 的牛肉加工商 Hertzog's Premium Beef LLC，获170万美元，将扩建屠宰、吊轨、冷却、冷藏与干式熟成系统，产能翻倍。St. Francois 县 Farmington 的 The Center Cut Slaughter and Meat Processing LLC 获906,871美元，将安装屠宰、绞碎、切片、包装与物料搬运设备，产能同样翻倍。
其余6个项目为：Warren 县 Wright City 的 Wright City Meat & Sausage Company LLC 获250,000美元，增添熏制、包装、切片与灌装设备，产量预计提升55%；Oregon 县 Koshkonong 的 Vonallmen Processing Co.（经营名 Garrison Farms Meat Processing LLC）获249,705美元，升级加工、冷藏、安全、搬运与环境控制设备，产量提升20%；Barry 县 Monett 的 2 Creek Butchery LLC 获229,458美元，增添屠宰、切割与包装设备，产量提升30%；Wright 县 Norwood 的 Williams Meat Company LLC 获228,356美元，产量提升15%；Butler 县 Poplar Bluff 的 Indian Creek Meats LLC 获150,363美元，产量提升50%；Stone 县 Shell Knob 的 Powers Farm LLC 获130,500美元，购置加工与包装设备并改造厂房，产量提升50%，预计惠及约330家牲畜养殖户。
Baker 表示，密苏里州在近几期 MPPEP 投资中位列全美前五，州内独立肉类加工商是农村社区的重要经济力量；这批投资除扩充本地产能外，也在于强化市场竞争、巩固供应链，并保障牲畜养殖户稳定可靠的市场通道。
MPPEP 由农业部农村发展署下属农村商业合作服务局管理，向符合条件的独立加工商提供扩产拨款，旨在鼓励美国肉类加工行业竞争与可持续增长、提升供应链韧性。农业部表示，MPPEP 已累计向独立企业拨款逾2亿美元，相关项目在全美创造了数千个就业岗位。
（来源：美国农业部）
USDA Invests Nearly $3.9 Million in Missouri Meat and Poultry Processing: Eight Projects Funded, Largest Grant $1.7 Million
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development Missouri State Director Ben Baker announced in Columbia on November 3 that USDA will invest nearly $3.9 million in eight meat processing projects in the U.S. state of Missouri through Phase 4 of the Meat and Poultry Processing Expansion Program (MPPEP), helping independent processors expand capacity.
The largest of the eight awards goes to Hertzog's Premium Beef LLC, a beef processor in Passaic, Bates County, which will receive $1.7 million to expand its slaughtering, rail, cooling, refrigeration and dry-aging systems, doubling production capacity. The Center Cut Slaughter and Meat Processing LLC in Farmington, St. Francois County, will receive $906,871 to install slaughtering, grinding, slicing, packaging and material-handling equipment, also doubling production.
The remaining six projects are: Wright City Meat & Sausage Company LLC in Wright City, Warren County, $250,000 for smoking, packaging, slicing and stuffing equipment, raising production by 55 percent; Vonallmen Processing Co., doing business as Garrison Farms Meat Processing LLC, in Koshkonong, Oregon County, $249,705 to upgrade processing, refrigeration, safety, material-handling and environmental-control equipment, raising production by 20 percent; 2 Creek Butchery LLC in Monett, Barry County, $229,458 for slaughtering, cutting and packaging equipment, raising production by 30 percent; Williams Meat Company LLC in Norwood, Wright County, $228,356, raising production by 15 percent; Indian Creek Meats LLC in Poplar Bluff, Butler County, $150,363, raising production by 50 percent; and Powers Farm LLC in Shell Knob, Stone County, $130,500 for processing and packaging equipment and facility improvements, raising production by 50 percent and benefiting about 330 livestock producers.
Baker said Missouri ranks in the top five nationwide for recent MPPEP investments and that the state's independent meat processors are vital economic powerhouses for rural communities. He said the investments expand local capacity, champion local choice and independence, build a more competitive market and a more resilient supply chain, and ensure livestock producers have dependable market access.
MPPEP is managed by USDA Rural Development's Rural Business-Cooperative Services and provides grants to help eligible independent processors expand capacity, encouraging competition and sustainable growth in the U.S. meat processing sector and improving supply chain resiliency. USDA says it has awarded more than $200 million to independent businesses under MPPEP, and the projects have created thousands of jobs across the country.
(Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture)
来源：美国农业部
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