NMPAN Staff Office Hours- Ask questions, get advice
Rebecca Thistlethwaite
David Zarling
Kylie Burriss
Meat & Poultry Processing Technical Assistance Consultants- Experts on different aspects of the meat supply chain & processing. Ready to answer questions, provide advice, & find you the resources you need. Book a free call!
Brian Brozovic
- Marketing & Sales
- Working with wholesalers/distributors
- Operations
- Compliance Programs
Tyler Cook
- New Product Development
- Value-Added Products & RTE
- HACCP Planning & Compliance
Abbe Turner
- Getting started writing a winning proposal
- Application questions, narrative development
- Agricultural Business Plans/ Value Added Products
Oliver Lee Mincey
- Everything Human Resources!
- Leadership Development and Training
- Employee Engagement and Morale
Joe M. Regenstein
- Religious slaughter best practices
- Halal/Kosher meat
- Animal Welfare
Chris Fuller
- Meat Processing Operations
- Facility Design & Equipment
- HACCP & Food Safety Programs
Anrion Thioboumery
- Scaling Your Business
- Product Costing
- Efficiencies and Throughput
Francisco Najar-Villarreal
- Ayuda en Español
- Equipment
- Meat Science
Samantha Egolf
- Feasibility Studies
- Business Planning
- Pre-construction Planning
Denise Perry
- Humane Handling/Animal Welfare
- Regulatory Compliance
- Food Safety & Quality
Tracy Smaciarz
- Custom Exempt operations
- Transitioning from custom to inspected
- Mobile Processing in real life
Greg Gunthorp
- On-Farm USDA Processing
- Poultry Processing
- Red Meat & Poultry in Same Facility
Trevor Morones
- Food Safety Management Systems
- Audit prep (FSA, GFSI) with craft solutions
- Meat and Poultry International HACCP Certification
Dan DeHaan
- Facility design
- Engineering
- Wastewater management systems
Elaine Lemmon
- Inventory management
- Financial statement analysis
- Budgeting and cash flow
Got a bigger problem or opportunity that a short phone call won’t solve? Then consider applying for our new Peer 2 Peer Consulting Program! The Niche Meat Processor Assistance Network, with funding from the Northwest & Rocky Mountain Regional Food Business Center and the USDA Meat & Poultry Processing Technical Assistance program, is offering this program to provide niche meat producers, processors, and meat brands access to longer term coaching and consulting to assist you in working through a difficult challenge or taking advantage of a new opportunity. Up to 10 hours of free coaching/consulting will be provided to those who are selected for this program. This is an application-based program and not all requests will be fulfilled. Learn more about the program and fill out a short application here. Program is open in 2025 for up to 20 projects and can cover some travel costs if requested.
