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Compeer donates 1M for new UW Platteville pilot dairy plant
6/12/23 Compeer donates to UW Platteville dairy pilot plant – Photo by Paul-Erickson/UW Platteville
The University of Wisconsin Platteville received a major contribution for its planned dairy pilot plant and training center. The one-million-dollar gift is the largest grant ever given by the Compeer Financial Fund for Rural America.
Doctor Tera Montgomery is a Professor of Dairy and Animal Science and the incoming UW-Platteville School of Agriculture Director. She says, “It’s going to be the maker space. It’s going to be about nineteen hundred square feet. We’re also going to have a store and we’re going to have a couple of cheese caves.”
Montgomery says Compeer’s donation is just the beginning. “It’s really hard to know, you know, what our timeline is going to look like. …
