Coordinating regional assets and opportunities
Practitioner work groups along with regional asset mapping and analysis are two projects advancing the Heartland Center’s work to serve as a regional hub supporting food and farm entrepreneurs.
Community Food Infrastructure is Bottom Line
The new Heartland Regional Food Business Center includes community food system initiatives among its working partnerships for their ground-level work developing essential capacity and connections.
Business assistance network scales up
Heartland Regional Food Business Center partners are adding staff and connecting efforts to help ensure that small, mid-size diversified farm and food businesses find the help they need no matter who they are, or where they are.
Get ready for business-building grants
Now is the time for food and farm businesses to get ready for Business Builder Subaward grants from the Heartland Regional Food Business Center.
New 5-state resource network for small and mid-size farm and food businesses
The Heartland Regional Food Business Center is dedicated to the business building needed to make local food an everyday, easy choice in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and northwest Arkansas.
USDA Announces Finalists for Twelve New USDA Regional Food Business Centers and $420 Million in Funding to Strengthen Food Supply Chain Infrastructure
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announces the creation of 12 new USDA Regional Food Business Centers that will provide coordination, technical assistance, and capacity building to help farmers, ranchers, and other food businesses across the nation.