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Four midstate agriculture businesses awarded grant funding
Paula Wolf//February 8, 2022
Four businesses in central Pennsylvania are receiving grants from the U.S. Department of Agriculture as part of a larger, $32 million investment in rural Pennsylvania.
The goal is to “keep resources and wealth right at home through job training, business expansion and technical assistance,” a release stated.
The following projects were awarded Value Added Producer Grants:
· Destiny Dairy Bar in Cumberland County, $250,000 to be utilized for processing, marketing and packaging pasteurized A2-cow bottled milk, flavored milk, flavored high-protein milk, cheese curds, yogurt and ice cream. The business is owned by Amy Brickner, a third-generation dairy farmer.
· A&R Nissley Inc. in Lancaster County, $250,000 to go toward processing, packaging and marketing activities related to producing canned wine, called “Kiss Cans,” from its harvested grapes.
· Omar Beiler in Lancaster County, $250,000 to support Beiler’s Heritage Acres, an Amish dairy farm. The grant will aid the farm’s transition from selling manufacturing grade milk to locally produced Grade-A milk.
And receiving a Rural Community Development Grant was Keystone Development Center Inc. in Lancaster County. The $200,000 will be used to sustain communities, economies and resources through cooperatively owned businesses in rural Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey and Maryland.
