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(WTAQ-WLUK) — A Calumet County meat processor is getting a state grant to help grow its business.
Hickory Hills Country Meats LLC in Chilton is among nine meat processors across Wisconsin to receive a grant from the Meat Processor Infrastructure Grant Program. These grants help local meat processors with projects to modernize and grow their businesses, produce new products, or expand their markets, while improving profitability and sustaining the long-term viability of Wisconsin’s meat processing facilities.
This program was secured in the 2023-25 Biennial Budget. A total of $250,000 was available for this round grants in the program, with a maximum of $50,000 allowed for each project. Grant recipients are required to provide a match of 100 percent of the grant amount. The program received 51 grant requests totaling more than $2.2 million since 2023.
Hickory Hills Country Meats will use the grant money to buy equipment to increase harvest capacity.
The other grant recipients in this round are:
- Almena Meat Company Inc. in Barron County: Purchase new efficient carcass cooler, doubling carcass storage space.
- Good News Farm LLC in Pepin County: Purchase equipment to become an official poultry harvest establishment.
- Brock’s Butcher Block in Monroe County: Purchase rollstock machine to alleviate harvest bottleneck.
- County Pride Meats in Rock County: Expand building to include more retail space and new sausage room.
- Malterer Meats in Dodge County: Purchase new Poly-clip machine to increase efficiency.
- 45 Meats LLC in Langlade County: Purchase mixer/grinder and scale to increase efficiency.
- Butcher Block 66 in Portage County: Expand freezer and hot water system to increase harvest capacity.
- Hickerson Meats & Processing LLC in Burnett County: Build new a processing and retail area.
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