农业部拨款351,880美元扩俄勒冈州肉类加工：Crystal Creek Meats把深加工收回厂内
美国农业部（USDA）11月3日宣布，位于美国俄勒冈州 Douglas 县 Roseburg 的 Crystal Creek Meats, Inc. 将通过肉类与家禽加工扩能计划（Meat and Poultry Processing Expansion Program，MPPEP）获得351,880美元拨款，用于扩大产能、开拓新的市场。
这笔拨款是 MPPEP 新一轮支持的一部分：副总统 J.D. Vance 与农业部长 Brooke L. Rollins 此前宣布，全美40个州的加工商将通过该计划获得共5,700万美元。Crystal Creek Meats 将用这笔资金把全部深加工环节收回厂内完成，为本地牲畜养殖户提供更多服务，同时扩大产品种类、提升效率与质量控制，并创造新的市场机会。
农业部农村发展署俄勒冈州主任 Jim Carmack 表示，投资俄勒冈州的肉类加工产能，就是投资农村社区的未来；支持独立加工商扩产可以强化本地供应链、创造就业，并让俄勒冈州的牧场主和牲畜生产者有更多有竞争力的渠道把产品推向市场，让俄勒冈农业的更多经济收益留在农村社区。
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 $351,880 to Expand Oregon Meat Processing: Crystal Creek Meats to Bring Further Processing In-House
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced on November 3 that Crystal Creek Meats, Inc., in Roseburg, Douglas County, Oregon, will receive $351,880 through the Meat and Poultry Processing Expansion Program (MPPEP) to expand its capacity and create new and better markets.
The grant is part of a wider MPPEP round in which, as Vice President J.D. Vance and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins announced, processors in 40 states will receive $57 million through the program. Crystal Creek Meats will use the funding to bring all further processing in-house, increasing its services to local livestock producers while broadening product offerings, increasing efficiency, improving quality control, and creating new market opportunities.
USDA Rural Development Oregon State Director Jim Carmack said investing in Oregon's meat processing capacity is an investment in the future of rural communities, strengthening local supply chains, creating jobs, and providing Oregon's ranchers and livestock producers with more competitive options to bring their products to market, so that more of the economic benefits of Oregon agriculture stay in rural communities.
MPPEP is managed by USDA Rural Development's Rural Business-Cooperative Services and provides grants to help eligible independent processors expand their capacity, encouraging competition and sustainable growth in the U.S. meat processing sector and improving supply chain resiliency.
USDA said it has awarded more than $200 million to independent businesses under MPPEP, and that 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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图片来源：图：俄勒冈州 Fort Klamath 附近的牧场与牛群（资料图）。A. E. Crane 摄，美国国家档案馆藏，公共领域，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: Cattle and ranch land near Fort Klamath, Oregon (file photo). By A. E. Crane, National Archives, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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