Rebecca Thistlethwaite

September Newsletter Feature: – The Immune System of a Meat Processing Plant

By David Zarling, NMPAN’s Program Manager Contact: zarlingd@oregonstate.edu Continued from the newsletter: The Backbone of Operational Excellence Imagine this: It’s a regular day at the plant. The machinery is humming, the crew is banging through beef sides ahead of schedule, and the cutting, packing and grind lines are running at capacity. Suddenly, the rollstock (thermoformer) […]

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February Newsletter Feature: – “Nobody Wants to Work Anymore, & Other Myths in the Meat Processing Workforce”

By Rebecca Thistlethwaite, Director of the Niche Meat Processor Assistance Network at Oregon State University, and Timothy Delbridge, PhD., Agricultural Economist in the Dept. of Applied Economics at Oregon State University Contact: thistler@oregonstate.edu, timothy.delbridge@oregonstate.edu Continued from the newsletter: Obviously, there are a lot of factors at play, which this short article can’t get into. However,

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Webinar: Ask Me Anything – Intro to Wholesaling Meat Q&A

A Niche Meat Processor Assistance Network webinar.    Date: November 30th, 2023 Duration: 60 Minutes   Building and scaling meat businesses: how to determine which market channels are right for you, price your products, find and keep customers, deliver, fulfill and get paid! Please join us for our new series, ‘Ask Me Anything’, where NMPAN’s team of  boots-on-the-ground

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Webinar: NMPAN Live – Humane Handling Q&A with the Humane Handling Institute

A Niche Meat Processor Assistance Network webinar.    Date: October 26th, 2023 Duration: 61 Minutes   Dr. Kurt Vogel and Ashlynn Kirk of the Humane Handling Institute at University of Wisconsin -River Falls explain their exciting new programand field all of your most pressing humane handling questions! We  troubleshoot handling and stunning related challenges, beginning with scenarios that we have

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Webinar: NMPAN Live – Optimizing Production Yields for Profit and Efficiency

A Niche Meat Processor Assistance Network webinar.    Date: October 5th, 2023 Duration: 90 Minutes   Are slaughter and fabrication yields a part of the daily conversation in your small plant? Do you track yields throughout your production process? If so, are you using that data to make decisions on the cut floor? Whether the answer

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NMPAN Live: Regenerative Brand Strategies for Small Meat Brands

A Niche Meat Processor Assistance Network webinar.    Date: July 27, 2023 Duration: 75 minutes   Marketing and brand-building techniques are often based in one-size-fits-most strategies and are reductive in scope and execution, resulting a trend-based rat race that pulls owners and operators away from the work they are most interested and qualified to do. Please

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