I’m more familiar with transportation grants than food grants, but I would imagine you write a proposal and get matching funds up to a certain ceiling, like 80-20 state-private up to $250,000, hypothetically. The costs on those blogs seem to refer to just furnishing equipment in a ready commercial space, though. If you’re having to develop a new site and incur construction costs, I could easily see spending $5M on a single site.

I’d think this is going to help producers upgrade or replace some existing equipment. Probably a good thing. $5.5M more than the market had, right?

I do wonder if there is some low hanging fruit on more efficiently connecting different stages of food production. Like a traveling salesman problem with getting food producers to packing.