WHEDA Small Business Financing Manual - Agribusiness Guarantee Chapter

Eligible Businesses

The business must do one of the following:

1. Start with a Wisconsin grown, raw agricultural commodity and then:
	Create a product new to the business, or Expand production of an existing product that will increase the use of a raw agricultural commodity; or Enhance the efficiency of the business
2. Commercially harvest whitefish in Lake Superior

The business must also:

	Demonstrate it has made a notable effort to purchase a substantial percentage of its raw agricultural commodities from Wisconsin suppliers.
	Be located in a Wisconsin municipality having a population under 50,000.