Increasing Meat Production, Efficiency and Capacity (IMPEC)

The N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services' Increasing Meat Production, Efficiency and Capacity (IMPEC) grant program is geared to independent state meat and seafood processing facilities. In addition to increasing production, efficiency and/or capacity, projects can also include value-added processing. Project categories can include equipment and infrastructure, contractual/consultation, labor, training and retention, and other identified needs.

To be eligible for grant funding, applicants must contract with independent livestock producers or seafood harvesters to process animals or seafood and must be state or federally inspected, or must produce further processed meat products under state or federal inspection, or be a USDA inspected processor of shelf-stable meat or meat products. Proposals can be for beef, pork, small ruminant, seafood, and catfish processing facilities. Recipients must match $1 in funds or services for every $2 in grant funding; cash or services must come from non-federal and/or state sources, and matching funds cannot be used as a match for any other federal or state cost-share project.

Administered by the NCDA&CS grants program. For program information and application materials contact the Director of Agricultural Project Management (Charles Fletcher). No application deadline is stated on the page.