WLEB provides funding to assist state’s working lands financial system reply and get well throughout pandemic
Vermont Enterprise Journal In response to the continuing pressing wants arising from COVID-19 challenges to Vermont’s Working Lands companies, the Working Lands Enterprise Board (WLEB) has introduced that 16 companies will obtain over $250,000 in COVID-19 Response Enterprise Growth Grants inside the sectors of agriculture and forestry. These awards will give attention to enterprise response, shifting advertising methods, or different actions that will enhance enterprise restoration.
“Vermont’s agricultural and forestry companies are important to our future. Getting grants shortly to those corporations will assist Vermont’s financial system to get well and develop in addition to assist feed Vermonters,” mentioned Governor Phil Scott.
With provide chain impacts felt across the area, one grantee, The Royal Butcher of Braintree, intends to reply to the surge in demand for slaughter and meat processing. Present bottlenecks in processing would require pressing want to satisfy the native demand for this butcher’s companies. “These {dollars} will enable us to broaden our enterprise whereas serving to farmers who want our companies through the pandemic,” mentioned Justin Sauerwein of The Royal Butcher. The Royal Butcher, established in 2003, is a USDA inspected slaughterhouse and meat processor, attending to the wants of native livestock and dairy farms. This $20,000 grant will enable them to serve extra farms, enhancing throughput by 30-40%.
The Working Lands Enterprise Initiative (WLEI) was happy to obtain funds from the Vermont and Northeast USDA Dairy Enterprise Innovation Heart which enabled WLEI to sponsor two companies from the pool of candidates with grants to help in advertising and model improvement efforts in direct response to coronavirus pandemic induced market declines.
The WLEI is a powerful program with rigorous requirements, an in-depth assessment course of, and historical past of grantees attaining their objectives with lasting constructive impacts.
The 2 value-added dairy processors, Cellars at Jasper Hill in Greensboro and Parish Hill Creamery in Putney, are each sturdy operations who’ve been adversely impacted. As producers of high-quality, modern, and world-renown cheeses, they exemplify the objectives of the Vermont and New England USDA Dairy Enterprise Innovation Heart.
|
Grantee |
Venture |
Award |
County |
|
Cate Hill Orchard |
Transitioning to year-round manufacturing of Sheep Milk Skyr |
$ 14,190 |
Orleans |
|
Champlain Valley Creamery |
Product Line Growth and Advertising and marketing Methods Throughout COVID-19 |
$ 5,300 |
Addison |
|
Fats Toad Farm |
Maximizing E-Commerce Gross sales |
$ 11,438 |
Orange |
|
Maple Landmark, Inc |
Manufacturing enhancements for Effectivity and Flexibility |
$ 12,807 |
Addison |
|
Maple Wind Farm |
Poultry Plant Tools for Employee Security Tips |
$ 20,000 |
Chittenden |
|
Sheehan and Sons Lumber |
Growth of Pallet Store |
$ 25,000 |
Windsor |
|
Silloway Maple |
Enchancment of Silloway Maple Agritourism Space, Maple Merchandise |
$ 16,000 |
Orange |
|
Cosy Valley Farm |
Cosy Valley Multi-Farm Dwelling Supply & Native Product Distribution |
$ 25,000 |
Caledonia |
|
Squier Household Farm, LLC |
Squier Household Farm Stand |
$ 14,739 |
Rutland |
|
Stannard Farm |
Farm Enhancements for Covid-19 |
$ 9,589 |
Orleans |
|
Tamarack Hole Farm, LLC |
Child Greens Wash/ Pack for Secure and Environment friendly Wholesale Growth |
$ 15,823 |
Washington |
|
The Royal Butcher, LLC |
The Royal Butcher Tools Funding |
$ 20,000 |
Orange |
|
Thistle Hill Farm LLC |
Processing and Web Improve for Market Growth |
$ 5,000 |
Windsor |
|
Vermont Farm Desk, LLC |
Increasing Native Provide Chain and Collaborations |
$ 10,000 |
Chittenden |
|
Cellars at Jasper Hill |
Actual Weight Cheese Wedge Venture Launch |
$ 25,000 |
Orleans |
|
Parish Hill Creamery |
Pivoting in Place and Making ready for Succession |
$ 21,175 |
Windham |
*Connected picture courtesy Almanack Farm/The Royal Butcher LLC.
Concerning the Vermont Working Lands Enterprise Initiative – The mission of the Working Lands Enterprise Initiative is to develop the economies, cultures, and communities of Vermont’s working panorama. The Working Lands Enterprise Board (WLEB) achieves this by making important, catalytic investments in important leverage factors of the Vermont farm and forest financial system and facilitating coverage improvement to optimize the agricultural and forest use of Vermont lands.
Supply: June 16, 2020 | Montpelier, VT – Company of Agriculture, Meals & Markets
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