Thirty-seven grants are Dairy Business Builder grants targeting small-to-medium size farmers or processors. In the latest round, DBIA will be distributing Dairy Business Builder grants totaling $3.3 million in nine of the 11 states covered by the DBIA. In addition, nearly 70 percent of awardees are first time winners.
DBIA also awarded four Dairy Industry Impact grants totaling $400,000 to dairy processing businesses in Wisconsin and Minnesota. This grant program supports projects in targeted topic areas that have the potential to positively impact the dairy industry as a whole. In the latest grant cycle, applications were accepted for projects related to exporting dairy products.
The full list of awardees can be found here: https://www.cdr.wisc.edu/december-2023-dbia-grant-recipients. Brief descriptions of the projects will be updated by February 2024.
In total, including these grants, DBIA has awarded more than $13 million in grants to 129 dairy processing businesses in the Midwest. Next year, DBIA is hoping to add a searchable database of grant awards and project areas.
The next Dairy Business Builder grant cycle will open on February 5, 2024! Register now for our Grant Webinar on February 7th here: https://www.cdr.wisc.edu/grant-webinar-spring-2024
The Dairy Business Innovation Alliance (DBIA) is a partnership between the Center for Dairy Research (CDR) and the Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association (WCMA) that develops and administers programs providing technical assistance as well as grants to dairy farms and businesses in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. The DBIA is supported by funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and was created in the 2018 federal Farm Bill.
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