COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
All of Missouri's colleges and universities will get a 7% bump in funding under the state's budget for the 2024 fiscal year, which began July 1, and money for a new meat processing plant at the University of Missouri.
Over $70 million is going toward increasing the budget for public universities and colleges. The University of Missouri is getting the biggest chunk of the increase at over $31 million. The University of Missouri is also getting $25 million to build a new meat processing plant.
Christopher Daubert, dean of the University of Missouri College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, said the meat processing program is part of the university's land grant.
“This investment is a great example of MU’s dedication to the land-grant mission," Daubert said. "In partnership with the Missouri Department of Agriculture, this new laboratory will enable CAFNR to showcase the latest meat processing research and technologies for expanding Missouri’s agri-businesses."
The new meat processing plant will replace the current one on East Campus. A new location for the project has not yet been chosen, but Director of Animal Sciences Bryon Wiegand, PhD, said he expects the project to break ground within a year.
"This project has been a long time in the making, we actually started a conversation probably as early as 2011," Wiegand said. "In 2014, we secured some grant funding to actually plan a facility so that'll be kind of where the starting point for us will be."
Check back for updates to this developing story.
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