MeatandPoultryProcessingCapacityTechnicalAssistance
Receiving a grant award notification likely seems like a hard-fought victory, worthy of celebration.
Yes, celebrate! Then, get ready to face the key challenges of managing that grant.
Reporting requirements are only one landmine that can trip up a grant recipient. Experts in breaking down a beef carcass may get flummoxed when trying to distinguish between an SF 424 and an SF 270, much less filling out those forms. Then, there’s the challenge of learning the online Payment Management System.
A 78-year-old processing business in Millen, Georgia is taking on new life, thanks to Jarrod and Becca Creasy.
Jarrod grew up on a farm not far from Millen, where Fries Frozen Food meat processing had been operating since 1948, while Becca grew up in central Florida in an agricultural family. After getting married on September 20, 2014, they began using Fries to process the beef they stocked in their own freezers and sold to others. As they dropped off an animal for processing one day, the owner said, “You two ought to buy this business.”
