Now that August is coming to a close, Labor Day is the last major weekend of summer, and families and friends across Wisconsin are firing up the grill and enjoying the last cookouts and campfires of the season.
In the 2023-2025 budget, Governor Evers and the legislature agreed to fund the Meat Processor Infrastructure Grant Program with $2 million.
This means there will be more production and increased capacity at the 500 meat processing facilities across the state if they choose to apply for grants.
Meat training courses are being offered at eight campuses within the Wisconsin Technical College System, which will further improve the meat industry’s workforce for now and the state’s next generation.
The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection’s (DATCP) Division of Food and Recreational Safety (DFRS) has stated that 15 new meat processing businesses have become licensed in the past year.
The DATCP encourages all Wisconsinites to support these local producers and processors for this Labor Day Weekend, and many more to come.
