A number of agriculture-related operations are getting in on the latest round of Rural Economic Development funding from the province.
Scenic Holsteins of Perth South is getting over 146 thousand dollars to help develop Ontario's first on-farm, artisanal raw milk cheese processing facility.
Central Huron is getting more than 12 thousand dollars to create a strategic plan for REACH in Clinton.
Almost 390 thousand dollars is going to Zantingh Direct in Wyoming, near Sarnia.
That money will be used to create a more biosecure pig assembly site for Canadian pork producers and meat packers.
Stemmler Meats and Cheese is getting almost 44 thousand dollars to buy new equipment to modernize their operation and improve food safety and traceability systems.
They're in Heidelberg, near Kitchener.
And farm equipment manufacturer the Salford Group is getting up to 25 thousand dollars for a business feasibility study for a proposed expansion of it's manufacturing facility near Ingersoll.
The provincial RED program supports economic dvelopment at the local and regional level.
