The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association says the recently announced grants from the USDA are a big win for small, independent processing facilities. Ethan Lane, vice president of government affairs for NCBA says this is one piece to the processing capacity puzzle they’ve been working on for two years.
“It is money that is intended to help small, state-inspected facilities that would like to get up to that federal standard to market their product across state lines,” he says.
