Webinars are available for viewing: 1)Mobile Processing Units: What's the State of the Art? 2)Poultry Processing Exemptions

All NMPAN webinars are recorded and archived here, ordered most recent to oldest.

7) Interstate Shipment of State-Inspected Meat Proposed Rule

Date: October 20, 2009
Duration: 45 min.
Presenters:

• Arion Thiboumery, Iowa State University, NMPAN Co-coordinator
• Bob Ehart, Public Policy Director, National Association of State Departments of Agriculture

6) Mobile Poultry Processing Units in California, Montana, and Vermont

Date: October 14, 2009
Duration: 1 hour
Presenters:

• Ed Jackson, Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets
• Mark Rehder and Megan Kennedy, Farms for Families in Montana
• Roger Ingram, University of California Cooperative Extension

5) Understanding the Processor's Language

Date: September 15, 2009
Duration: 60 minutes
Presenter: Jay Wenther, Executive Director of the American Association of Meat Processors, teaches us how processors do what they do, from yield grades and cutting specifications, inspection and other regulatory requirements, meat handing and shelf life, improving communications with your processor, and more.

4) Meat Labels and Label Claims

Date: July 8, 2009
Duration: 90 minutes
Presenters:

• Jeff Canavan, USDA/FSIS Labeling and Program Delivery Division on the role of this agency, the “prior label approval” system, and generic label approval.
• Janis Hochstetler, Iowa Meat and Poultry Inspection, on what’s required on a meat or poultry product label and the label approval process at the state inspection level.
• Tammie Myrick, USDA/FSIS Labeling and Program Delivery Division, on voluntary label claims, policy changes, and the relationship between FSIS and USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service regarding label claims.
• Pam Saunders, operations and quality manager for Organic Prairie, the meat brand of Organic Valley, on label claims and recent regulatory changes from a meat company perspective.

3) Building a Small meat Processing Plant

Date: May 26, 2009
Duration: 1 hour
Presenters:

• Mike Willet, Iowa State University's Center for Industrial Research and Service, on factors & considerations for deciding when to expand your plant.
• Keith DeHann, Food and Livestock Planning, Inc., on common problems and oversights when building a new plant.
• Arion Thiboumery, NMPAN Co-coordinator, on the new "Guide to Designing a Small Red Meat Plant with Two Sizes of Model Designs," published by Iowa State University Extension.

2) Poultry Processing Exemptions

Date: March 10, 2009
Duration: 90 Minutes
Presenters:

• Dr. Robert Ragland, Senior Staff Officer, Office of Policy and Program Development USDA-FSIS
• Clarence Davis, Supervising Food Inspector, Division of Food Safety and Inspection, New York State Dept. of Agriculture and Markets
• “Farmer Russell," Midwest, Turkey producer and processor operating under the Producer/Grower 20,000 Bird Exemption
• Karen Black, Oregon, chicken producer and processor operating under the Producer/Grower 20,000 Bird Exemption
• Herman Weber, upstate New York, chicken producer and processor operating under the Small Enterprise Exemption

1) Mobile Processing Units: What's the State of the Art?

Date: December 10, 2008
Duration: 1 hour
Presenters:

• Bruce Dunlop, Island Grown Famers Co-op (WA) and first to build a USDA-inspected red meat MPU, on the latest ideas and options regarding mobile units.
• Jan Tusick, Grow Montana, on policy challenges to getting an MPU up & running in Montana
• Kate Painter, Washington State University, on a new economic feasibility cost-calculator spreadsheet for MPUs.