Two northwest Iowa dairy farms are among 15 operations to receive Choose Iowa Dairy Innovation Grants.
Iowa Agriculture Secretary Mike Naig says the grant program helps Iowa dairy farms “by offering cost-share grants for new processing equipment or labor-saving technologies”..
A 100-thousand dollar grant was awarded to Cornbelt Dairy of Marcus, toward the purchase and installation of two robotic milkers. The total project budget is 422-thousand dollars. Another 100-thousand dollar grant was awarded to Knapptime Dairy of Larchwood, toward construction of a compost barn and a 24-stall rotary milking parlor. This project’s budget is 507-thousand dollars
A total of 750-thousand dollars was spread among the 15 projects which received awards, and leverages 4.1 million dollars in total investment.
