OREGON – The Oregon Department of Agriculture is looking to expand meat processing across the state.
It’s divvying up $8.6 million in grants statewide with more than $2.5 million coming to Southern Oregon.
Central Point’s Montgomery’s Meats is receiving almost $540,000.
Diamond S Meat in Klamath Falls will get more than $638,000.
Nearly $700,000 is going to Lake County Meat out of Lakeview.
Roseburg’s McLendon’s Old Fashioned Meats is also getting just shy of $700,000.
The money distributed through the ODA was allocated by the Oregon Legislature.
The ODA says that Oregon’s beef industry is a significant contributor to the national livestock supply chain.
However a lot of economic opportunity is lost because processing is done out of state.
This grant program aims to remedy that while benefiting local communities.
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