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Educational resources from the Meat Processing and Marketing workshop held in February 2015. An Amazing Grazing Project event with support from the North Central Extension Risk Management Education Center and USDA NIFA.

Meat Charts and Cutting Card from Melissa Wahl

Melissa Wahl provided participants at the February 4, 2015 Meat Processing and Marketing for Optimal Sales workshop a set of carcass meat cuts for beef, pork, sheep and goats. Many of today's consumer's have no idea where many of the retail cuts of meat come from on the animal or how to cook them. These [...]

Meat Charts and Cutting Card from Melissa Wahl2016-11-04T21:46:27-05:00

Stop the Meatball Slingin’: Meat Producer-Processor Relationships

Rosanna Bauman’s USDA-Inspected poultry processing facility serves the majority of direct-marketed poultry producers in NE Kansas and her family markets their own birds to restaurants, grocers and area co-ops. Rosanna provided insight on how to be a good partner with your processor and how to strengthen relationships with your wholesale buyers. Stop the Meatball Slingin': [...]

Stop the Meatball Slingin’: Meat Producer-Processor Relationships2016-11-04T21:46:27-05:00

Meat Processing Tips from Brad Dieckmann

Brad Dieckmann brings more than 25 years experience as owner of a processing facility and provided tips on improving relationships with processors by explaining the processor’s experience during the February 4, 2015 Meat Processing and Marketing for Optimal Sales workshop. Basic Meat Processing Guidelines Brad Dieckmann Clay Center Locker February 2015 Download Publication PDF 1.5 [...]

Meat Processing Tips from Brad Dieckmann2016-11-04T21:46:27-05:00

about KFU

Kansas Farmers Union is the state’s oldest active general farm organization working to protect and enhance the economic interests and quality of life for family farmers and ranchers and rural communities.

We believe family ownership of farm land is the basis for the world’s most viable system of food and fiber production, and that maintaining this family farm system will preserve our natural and human resources.