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NMPAN by the Numbers:
Our listserv and monthly newsletter have:
We provide technical assistance to this many processors each year:
Our website receives over:
Our YouTube channel has:
Our listserv and monthly newsletter have:
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Subscribers
Our newsletter has a double the industry standard:
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Meat Processors
Our Our website receives 20,000 to:
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Hits a Month
Our youtube channel has:
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Subscribers
Too often, very small processors feel like they’re alone out here; like no one else understands and lives our challenges. It’s a rough business to make work; it can be a highly stressful business, economically and bureaucracy-wise. NMPAN matters because it shows that together we do have a voice. It shows us that other people are living the same thing.
-Mike Processor
Since I subscribed to your listserv a decade ago, I've thought of NMPAN as a college education for small processors and their advisors. I can't thank you enough for the work you do and the energy you consistently supplied the listserv.
-Elizabeth S.Farm Business Advisor
I think it’s fair to say we could not have opened our own processing plant and been successful without NMPAN.
-Sam Retail Butcher
I know that through the listserv or the people in the organization, I can get to almost any resource that I need.
-Denise Processor
It’s drastically changed the landscape for people who want to get into the processing sector. Ten years ago, people had no place to turn when they wanted to get in; it was a complete void. It would be hard now to talk about starting a small processing operation without someone pointing you to NMPAN.
-Greg Producer/Processor
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NMPAN membership is free and open to anybody in the meat business or related services. Currently, that membership looks like this:
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36% meat processing (custom, state, & USDA inspected plants, slaughter through retail butchering, mostly small and very small plants)
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28% meat producers (farmers & ranchers)
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18% other (suppliers, consultants, NGOs)
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10% academia and government
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7% meat brands/brokers/distributors
Business Sponsorships
Businesses that share NMPAN’s mission have supported our work since our inception, in different ways. As a project housed within a public university and the national Cooperative Extension system, NMPAN cannot endorse any specific businesses or their products. However, we can thank our business sponsors in the following ways:
- List your business in the “Supporters” section on the “What is NMPAN page”
- Get listed on our “Equipment, Supplier, and Consultant Resources” webpage
- List your business as a supporter on the bottom footer of our monthly newsletter
Business sponsors are also welcome to:
- Post classifieds and events in our monthly newsletter
- Join and contribute to our listserv, which is an active group of 1,800 people asking questions and sharing advice about meat and poultry processing
Our Business Sponsors
Business Sponsor Levels
Gold Level Support
$
10,000
Year
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listed as part of our 10 for 10 for 10 campaign on a special webpage
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listed on our website under supporters
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listed on the footer of our newsletter for 12 months
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all other benefits described above
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Current sponsors include: National Pork Board
Silver Level Support
$
5,000
Year
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listed on our website under supporters
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listed on the footer of our newsletter 4 times over the year
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all other benefits described above
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Current sponsors include: Ultrasource LLC, Lorentz Meats, & Vermont Packinghouse
Bronze Level Support
$
2,000
Year
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listed on our website under supporters
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listed on the footer of our newsletter for 1 month
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all other benefits described above
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Current sponsors include: Bunzl Processing Division, Mission Meats
Annual Supporter Levels
Just like public radio, NMPAN only exists with your support. We do not receive any funding through our sponsor university and must raise all of our funds to operate. If you think our work is valuable, please consider becoming an annual supporter of our work. Click on this link to donate easily through the OSU Foundation portal. Annual supporter levels are below.
Processor/Farmer
$100/year
Supplier/Consultant
$150/year
Academia, Students, & Other Allies
$75/year
You can also donate by check if you prefer.
Please make checks payable to “OSU Foundation” and write the name NMPAN in the memo line. Send to:
OSU Foundation
4238 SW Research Way.
Corvallis, OR 97333-1068
f If you are interested in becoming a business sponsor or joining our annual supporter program at a different level or should you need an invoice, please contact NMPAN Director Rebecca Thistlethwaite at thistler@oregonstate.edu or call 541-806-1526. You can also donate now at this link through the secure OSU Foundation portal.
Please make checks payable to “OSU Foundation” and write the name NMPAN in the memo line. Send to:
OSU Foundation
4238 SW Research Way.
Corvallis, OR 97333-1068
f If you are interested in becoming a business sponsor or joining our annual supporter program at a different level or should you need an invoice, please contact NMPAN Director Rebecca Thistlethwaite at thistler@oregonstate.edu or call 541-806-1526. You can also donate now at this link through the secure OSU Foundation portal.