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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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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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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A Niche Meat Processor Assistance Network webinar. Date: August 24, 2023 Duration: 120 minutes Are you interested in learning more about what deregulation could look like in the niche meat industry? Please enjoy this lively discussion between Denise Perry, PhD and meat processing operations expert, and David Zarling of NMPAN where they facilitate a
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There are a limited number of independent USDA-inspected poultry processing plants that will do custom fee-for-service processing for farmers. We will attempt to update this list when we hear of new ones. Below is a map and table of the establishments we have located. Marble City Meats 514 Odena Rd. N, Sylacauga, AL 35150 Alabama
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Page updated 9.1.2022 If you are selling meat, it has to be inspected (both slaughter & butchering) by either a state inspection program or a USDA Food Safety Inspection Service inspector. We will go into more details about what that means below. If you are selling a live animal to a person or a group
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According to the USDA, an animal is considered kosher if it is a ruminant (“chews the cud”) and has split or cloven hooves. For red meat, this means only the flesh of deer, antelope, goats, sheep and bovines can be kosher. Chicken, turkey, duck and goose (i.e. not birds of prey) can also be kosher.
If you are a meat processor, and you believe your inspector has given you an “NR” or noncompliance record that is unwarranted or an error, you have the right to appeal the inspector’s decision. Many processors are hesitant to appeal, for fear of damaging their relationship with their FSIS inspector . However, FSIS emphasizes that
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With the expansion of uncured, nitrite/nitrate-free products in the marketplace, there has been some confusion around the regulatory requirements. Uncured (or “nitrite/nitrate-free”) products require the same safe handling instructions* as cured products since they are both raw products. In addition, if you are producing an uncured product that uses a vegetable powder as it’s nitrite source, you will
Interstate Shipment of State Inspected Meat and Poultry In April 2011, USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced the final rule for the new Interstate Shipment of State Inspected Meat and Poultry program. The program, established in the 2008 Farm Bill, allows state-inspected processors to ship their products across state lines, if (a)
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