农业部拨款25万美元扩密歇根州肉类加工：The Cut购入屠宰线设备扩产能
美国农业部农村发展署宣布，农业部开始拨付肉类与家禽加工扩能计划（MPPEP）的资金，其中密歇根州 Isabella 县的加工商 The Cut Custom Processing LLC 获 25 万美元拨款，用于扩大加工能力、开拓新市场。此前，副总统 J.D. Vance 与农业部长 Brooke L. Rollins 已宣布，全国 40 个州的加工商将通过 MPPEP 获得共 5,700 万美元。
The Cut 将用这笔拨款购置一整套屠宰线设备，包括液压击晕箱、束缚器、转运站、剥皮机、内脏处理系统、胴体劈分站、检验与清洗平台、轨道与小车系统以及液压动力部件。农业部表示，该项目将扩大其年加工能力、缓解生产瓶颈，支持更多养殖户把自有牲畜送来屠宰加工，并创造新的全职岗位。
Rollins 表示：「在特朗普总统领导下，本届政府正在为养活这个国家的人们实实在在地做事。如今资金开始到位，养殖户在家门口将有更多选择，市场竞争将回归，美国饲养的牛肉将有更多价值留在乡村社区。」
MPPEP 由农业部农村发展署下属的农村商业合作服务局管理，向符合条件的独立加工商提供拨款，帮助其扩充产能。农业部设计该计划，旨在鼓励竞争、推动美国肉类加工行业可持续增长并增强供应链韧性。
农业部表示，其已通过 MPPEP 向独立企业拨款逾 2 亿美元，这些项目在全国创造了数千个就业岗位。（来源：美国农业部）
USDA Awards $250,000 to Expand Michigan Meat Processing: The Cut to Buy Harvest-Line Equipment
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Development agency announced that USDA is beginning to obligate funds under the Meat and Poultry Processing Expansion Program (MPPEP), including a $250,000 grant for The Cut Custom Processing LLC in Isabella County, Michigan, to expand its capacity and create new and better markets. Vice President J.D. Vance and Agriculture Secretary Brooke L. Rollins previously announced that processors in 40 states would receive $57 million through MPPEP.
The Cut will use the grant to purchase harvest-line equipment, including a hydraulic stunning box, restrainer, transfer station, hide puller, viscera handling system, carcass splitter station, inspection and wash platforms, rail and trolley systems, and hydraulic power components. USDA said the project will expand annual processing capacity, reduce production bottlenecks, support additional producer-owned livestock harvests, and create new full-time jobs.
"Under President Trump, this administration is delivering for the men and women who feed our nation. Now that these funds are moving, ranchers will have more options close to home, more competition will return to the market, and more of the value of American-raised beef will stay in rural communities," Secretary Rollins said.
MPPEP is managed by USDA Rural Development's Rural Business-Cooperative Service and provides grants to help eligible independent processors expand their capacity. USDA designed the program to encourage competition and sustainable growth in the United States meat processing sector and improve supply chain resiliency.
USDA said it has awarded more than $200 million to independent businesses under MPPEP, and that these 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：密歇根州一处牧场的肉牛群（资料图）。照片：Dwight Burdette，CC BY 3.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: Cattle grazing on a farm in Freedom Township, Michigan (file photo). Photo by Dwight Burdette, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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