Bear Paw Development getting $10M for meat and poultry processing loan fund

Press release

Editor’s note: A version of this ran in the online edition of Havre Daily News Monday.

BOZEMAN — U.S. Department of Agriuculture announced that USDA is investing more than $16 million with three local business development corporations, including Havre-based Bear Paw Development Corp., to create new and better markets for agricultural producers and food businesses in rural Montana.

Bear Paw received a $10,000,000 Meat and Poultry Intermediary Lending Program grant from U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development to administer a revolving loan fund for the Montana Meat and P...