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Job Postings Assistant Plant Manager Location: Asheboro, North Carolina Butcher Location: Fort Jones, California Head Butcher Do you love custom butchery, but just want to live in the mountains? Watauga Butchery
Job Postings Assistant Plant Manager Location: Asheboro, North Carolina Butcher Location: Fort Jones, California Head Butcher Do you love custom butchery, but just want to live in the mountains? Watauga Butchery
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,
HACCP and Meat Cutting Courses eHACCP.org is also offering online accredited HACCP courses. Check out their offerings here. HACCP Consulting Group offers virtual basic HACCP courses, including some in Spanish. See their upcoming
Educational Opportunities and Webinars 2024 August NMPAN Ask Me Anything: Quality Control and Training Programs for the Small Plant Who: Trevor Morones, Founder of Control Point Consulting When: 7/25 @
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
<< Back What’s on this page? Here you’ll find resources for planning a new meat processing business or expanding an existing one. The economics of small-scale meat processing are tough.
Got a problem or opportunity that you need more assistance with over a longer period of time? Have you reached out to any of our technical assistance providers with a
Put HER in the RTE Room by Denise Perry, PhD, of Single Shot Consulting and NMPAN Advisory Board Member …continued from the newsletter The reality is that MOST of the
Celebrating the Holidays at a Meat Processing Plant: A Balance of Work and Joy by Chris Fuller, Founder of Fuller Consulting and NMPAN Technical Assistance As the holiday season approaches,
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
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
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?
Modular Harvest System Hudson Valley, New York “Now we are thinking of the MHS as a way for people to try out the business, get some experience operating under
A Niche Meat Processor Assistance Network webinar Learn more about NMPAN: www.nichemeatprocessing.org Webinar Description Mobile poultry processing units (MPPUs) have been around for more than ten years. On this
A Niche Meat Processor Assistance Network webinar Overview N-60 sampling. Multi drug resistance. Pathogen v. adulterant. Non-0157 STECs. MDR Salmonella strains. Gram negative v. gram positive organisms. CFU, APC,
Mobile Slaughter Units: Reports from the Field and Future Directions A Niche Meat Processor Assistance Network webinar Date: September 10, 2013 Duration: 90 minutes Overview Inspected mobile slaughter units for beef,
What’s on this page? A basic understanding of microbiology can really help as you develop food safety and HACCP plans. This page has a few resources to get you started as
What’s on this page? Upgrading or expanding an existing meat processing plant, building a new facility, buying equipment… it all costs money, and plenty of it. The information on this
Cost Analysis: Are You Making Money? A Niche Meat Processor Assistance Network webinar Date: March 19, 2014 Duration: 1 hour All NMPAN webinars are free and open to the public. Overview Many
A Niche Meat Processor Assistance Network webinar, presented in collaboration with USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service. Date: February 4, 2014 Duration: 1 hour The Cooperative Interstate Shipment Program, authorized by the
Here are a set of blueprints for a mobile poultry processing unit (MPPU) built to operate under “equal to” state inspection in Vermont. The MPPU was built by the Vermont Agency of
This page was developed with input from experienced producers, processors, and regulators. Consumer interest in raw, local and/or organic diets for their pets has increased greatly in recent years. With
If you are interested in preparing jerky in your processing facility, you will need to demonstrate lethality in your jerky-making process. Typically this means cooking under controlled humidity per
<< Back From bacon to jerky, prosciutto and salami, further processed meat products have a strong following. Consumers like the taste, and farmers, butchers, and restaurants like turning lower end cuts into