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Get Grant Ready: How Farmers Can Use Cash Flow to Prepare for Funding Webinar

Understanding different types of financing available can help farmers and food businesses prepare for opportunities and challenges. On August 21, 2025, the Great Lakes Midwest Regional Food Business Center hosted a webinar to support food business owners understand the impact of loans on cash flow and profitability. We heard from presenters, Andy Larson, Food Finance Institute of the Universities of Wisconsin, and Jamie Rahrig, Michigan State University Center for Regional Food Systems, who have a combined 40+ years of experience supporting food and farm businesses. This webinar provides information on: • Understanding grant eligibility and fit • Reviewing application needs and strategy • Match and cost recovery • Applying for reimbursement • Available resources and more Per the USDA announcement on July 15, 2025, the Regional Food Business Centers program was terminated, prior to its original end date of July 2028. Because of this, the Great Lakes Midwest Regional Food Business Center halted operations on September 15, 2025 and was unable to responsibly launch the Business Builder Subaward and assistance programs. Please see our related press release (https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/usda-cl... ). Resources intended to help food and farm businesses will remain freely available on this website and additional resources can be found at https://foodsystems.msu.edu/resources   About the Great Lakes Midwest Regional Food Business Center    The Great Lakes Midwest Regional Food Business Center was dedicated to offering coordination, technical assistance, and capacity building opportunities for farmers, producers, and other food business owners in support of a more resilient and competitive food system. Michigan State University Center for Regional Food Systems (MI) (https://www.canr.msu.edu/foodsystems/) coordinated the Great Lakes Midwest Regional Food Business Center comprised of network coordinators – Chicago Food Policy Action Council (IL) (https://www.chicagofoodpolicy.com/) , Northwest Indiana Food Council (IN) (https://www.nwifoodcouncil.org/), Food Finance Institute of the University of Wisconsin System (WI) (https://foodfinanceinstitute.org/), and the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin Department of Agriculture and Food Systems (https://www.menominee-nsn.gov/Governm...) – who sought to take a transformational, rather than transactional, approach. Learn more at https://glm-rfbc.msu.edu