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USDA Funds to Charles City, Lime Springs Processing Plants
Pure Prairie Farms (PPF) isn’t the only North Iowa processing plant getting a federal financial windfall to help their operations.
PPF will receive about $46 million in USDA grants and loans to reopen the facility in Charles City, shut down since former owners, Simply Essentials, closed the doors in August of 2019.
The USDA has also given Upper Iowa Beef in Lime Springs a nearly $9 million grant for the company’s expansion project to increase slaughter capacity by 50%.
U.S. Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack said it’s part of the agency’s push to expand meat and poultry processing.
In all this week, the USDA has awarded $223 million in grants and loans to 32 companies in 19 different states.