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Mission Mountain Food Enterprise Center A Program of Lake County Community Development Corporation Presented by: Jan Tusick Program Manager.

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1 Mission Mountain Food Enterprise Center A Program of Lake County Community Development Corporation Presented by: Jan Tusick Program Manager

2 Ronan, MT

3 Statewide and Regional

4 Who Are We ? Our mission is to enhance regional and state economic opportunities by Providing client services to value-added agriculture and specialty food businesses through the management and operation of a viable community-based processing center.

5 What Do We Do ? Provide Commercial Kitchen Access Recipe Development / Analysis Product Packaging processing / Packaging Technical Assistance Marketing Assistance Research / Feasibility Studies Business Incubation / Lending

6 Product Development Assistance Nutritional Analysis Recipe Expansion Product Development Product Bar Codes Licensing Assistance Marketing

7 Regulatory Compliance FDA Compliance –Licensing –registration USDA inspection - HACCP Planning USDA Certified Organic - handlers plan

8 Business Development Assistance Cooperative Development Program Revolving Loan Program Business development services - Business Plan Assistance - Marketing Plan Assistance - Grant Assistance

9 Capacity for Clients USDA Meat Processing Area

10 Capacity for Clients Pitting, Juicing, Drying of Fruits

11 Commercial Bottling Line Capacity for Clients

12 Volume Processing For Cooked bottled products

13 Dry Fill product- Bulk and Tea Bags Capacity for Clients

14 Fully Equipped Kitchen & Baking Facility Capacity for Clients

15 The Lessons Learned Proven a statewide need Difficult for rural communities to support Capitalization needs high - maintenance and repairs - equipment Effective marketing programs needed - if you build it they will come Value-added agriculture enterprise development is challenging

16 Opportunities increase partnerships to a regional/statewide level –Montana State university- Food Science curriculum –Montana department of Ag –Farm to table- Glendive Community Kitchen Client Fee based Services Commercialization Projects Store front/tourism Local Food movement

17 Critical Partnerships Montana Department of Agriculture

18 Our Clients Western Montana Growers Coop Amazing Grains LLC Flathead Native Ag Coop

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