Choose Iowa Value-Added Grants Awarded to 26 Iowa Businesses and Non-Profits.
The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship has awarded 26 Choose Iowa Value-Added Grants totaling $463,000 to Iowa farmers, small businesses, and non-profits in 22 counties. The grants, which match up to $25,000 per project, will help leverage a total investment of $1,993,190.47 by grant awardees.
Two local businesses, Vintage Beef by Gress Family Farms of Charter Oak and One Farm LLC of Logan, were among the grant recipients. Vintage Beef by Gress Family Farms received a $20,000 grant to convert a historic railroad depot into a community farm store, featuring cold storage, packaging, and retail space. The total budget for the project is $49,130. One Farm LLC received a grant of $3,590 to expand frozen and refrigerated retail display space to offer additional local agricultural products, with a total project budget of $7,180.
The Choose Iowa Value-Added Grants support a wide variety of projects, including:
- Delivery and cold storage for direct-to-consumer meat sales- Fruit production and processing- Vegetable processing- Packaging equipment- Cider and wine canning and bottling- Farm store and food hub construction- Honey production- Culinary herb, lavender, and cut flower production- Warehouse capacity- Cover crop seed distribution- Agritourism opportunities
Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig emphasized the importance of these grants in helping Iowa farmers, small businesses, and non-profits increase the availability of Iowa products while creating positive economic activity in communities across the state.
Since the launch of the grants in 2022, a total of $1,173,690 has been awarded to 67 projects, leveraging a total investment of $4,268,099.19. The grant program remains highly competitive, with 63 eligible grant requests totaling $1,130,139 received this year, far exceeding the available funding of $463,000.
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