Fresno State gets almost $700,000 to help dairy businesses

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A full of $690,000 successful national backing was awarded to Fresno State to enactment dairy businesses and assistance farmers pat into higher-value uses for milk, specified arsenic artisanal cheeses and integrated dairy products, Congressman Jim Costa announced.

“Fresno State continues to turn the adjacent procreation of innovative dairymen and women. This backing inaugural fortifies the California dairy marketplace and boosts probe needs connected the ground, which enhances acquisition pathways for students aspiring to thrive successful the dairy industry,” said Costa.

In 2022, Fresno State began a concern with the California Dairy Innovation Center to make a "Pacific Coast Coalition" to enactment dairy businesses successful California, Oregon, and Washington successful the production, marketing, and organisation of dairy products, officials say.

The assistance was awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Officials accidental Fresno State has received a full of $20 cardinal from the USDA for the initiative.