The Michigan Turkey Manufacturers Cooperative is reconfiguring its bloodless garage capability, with the help of a Meals and Agriculture Funding Program (FAIP) grant authorized via the Michigan Fee of Agriculture and Rural Building.
The $75,000 FAIP grant lets in the cooperative to reconfigure and amplify its present cold-storage capability to align with the goods that are being produced and shipped. It is going to additionally come with upgrading their freezer to person blast freezing racking, often referred to as Fast Freeze Racking (QFR). The reconfiguration lets in an building up in capability, permitting the corporate to building up orders with present purchasers and produce on new purchasers.
“The ongoing enlargement of our value-added cooked trade has pushed the desire for added recent cooler house,” mentioned Brian Boerigter, president of Michigan Turkey Manufacturers Cooperative. “Those upgrades will let us be extra attentive to our buyer call for and extra environment friendly in our order achievement procedure. Michigan Turkey Manufacturers Board of Administrators and grower house owners very much admire the enhance from the Michigan Division of Agriculture and Rural Building (MDARD) in serving to to make this mission conceivable.
“Native companies are what form and construct our native economies. I am dedicated to supporting native companies like Michigan Turkey Manufacturers, and I proportion their pleasure over this richly deserved funding,” mentioned State Rep. John Fitzgerald, D-Kent County. “Grower-owned cooperatives play an essential position within the agricultural trade, particularly in our native group. I look ahead to persevered partnerships with MDARD as we proceed to generate new financial alternatives in West Michigan.”
The Michigan Turkey Manufacturers Cooperative is a grower-owned cooperative that used to be based in 1998. Lately, 5.3 million grownup male turkeys are harvested every 12 months on the corporate facility. The turkeys originate from 53 Michigan circle of relatives farms positioned in Allegan, Barry, Ottawa, Gratiot, Newaygo, Muskegon, Kent, Montcalm, Mecosta, and Oceana counties. For the reason that cooperative’s acquire of a shuttered vegetable processing and garage facility in 2006 to construct a ready-to-eat (cooked) product plant, they have got been ready to extend manufacturing from 3.2 million kilos to 64 million kilos. Michigan Turkey Manufacturers Cooperative sells in the neighborhood, right through the rustic, and the world over, and ranks because the tenth greatest turkey manufacturer within the United States.