Farmer Owned Value Added Processing Feasibility Study
Organization:
North Carolina Agricultural Foundation, Inc.
Amount:
90000
Program Area:
Open Grants Program
County of Applicant:
Wake
Year:
01/19/2001
Description:
The project proposes to do a feasibility study and business plan for a cooperatively-controlled, demand-driven, value-added food processing facility as recommended by the NC Rural Prosperity Task Force. The project focuses on networking several pork processing operations to address markets for small independent farmers.