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Funds Still Available to Support Dairies Seeking to Modernize, Diversify
May 24, 2021
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. Funding to assist the state’s dairy businesses is still up for grabs.
After the first round of funding announced in December 2020, some funds are still available for dairy businesses in Tennessee. As part of a recent grant from the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service, the University of Tennessee Department of Animal Science and the Center for Profitable Agriculture have teamed with the Tennessee Department of Agriculture to support eligible Tennessee dairies as they seek to modernize and diversify their operations. Approximately $62,000 of the original $227,000 is still available for subawards to individual Tennessee dairy businesses, and the application period for the second round of grants is now open.
Ginger Rowsey
Linda and Rod Barnes, along with daughter, Dolly, raise 180 beef cattle near Selmer, Tenn. They’ve found a niche market by providing recipient cows for embryo transfer from purebred donor cows. Mid-South beef producers find a profitable niche market with recipient cows.
Rod and Linda Barnes raise 180-head of SimAngus cattle near Selmer, Tenn.
That’s 180 black cows.but the calves come in all colors.
“People who drive by and see the herd often ask us, ‘How did you get a solid white calf or a solid red calf out of that black cow?’” Linda recalled. “I tell them it would take a long time to explain.”