Technical Assistance and Grants for Midwest Dairy Farms and Businesses
The Dairy Business Innovation Alliance (DBIA) is a partnership between the Center for Dairy Research (CDR) and the Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association (WCMA) that develops and administers programs providing technical assistance as well as grants to dairy farms and businesses in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota and Wisconsin.
DBIA Awards $230K in 2020 Grant Program
Applications for the DBIA 2019 grant program were made available on
June 14, 2020 with a deadline of August 14, 2020. Seventy-seven
applications were received for a total request of approximately $1.5
million.
The applications were scored by the DBIA project team as well as a
representative from each of the five Departments of Agriculture
representing IA, IL, MN, SD and WI, as well as a representative from
Midwest Dairy. Grants were distributed until the fund of $230,000 was
exhausted. View the list of 2020 DBIA grant recipients.
Funding for the DBIA was made possible by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service through grant AM190100XXXXG079 and grant AM200100XXXXG001. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the USDA.