The trick is to license private companies to produce the powder. You still get the budget savings, and you get reasonable license fees from the private companies, but you offload the risk of having to invest in the industrial dehydrators.

This is why you freeze dry them first and use a burr grinder.

Lay em out in West Texas and they'll be good as dust in two shakes of a fat lambs tail. Just don't let the coyotes get to em. Or don't. Whatever. I'm not a cop.