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NMPAN Affiliates New York

Last Updated: April 25, 2010

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Primary State Affiliates


Dr. Tatiana Stanton
Cornell University Cooperative Extension
Ithaca, NY
(607) 254-6024
tls7@cornell.edu


Marty Broccoli
Cornell University Cooperative Extension
Oriskany, NY
(315) 736-3394 x.121
mjb83@cornell.edu


Tatiana Stanton and Marty Broccoli are both part of the New York Small Farms Work Team on Livestock Processing Issues. This state-wide work team aims to help livestock farmers and small processors better deal with livestock processing issues.

Resource Guide to Direct Marketing Meat and Poultry

This comprehensive guide, revised in 2010 by the Small farms Work Team, can be downloaded whole or by section, from the link above.

Two additional publications were published by the work team in March 2009, and can also be downloaded from the work team website linked above:

  • Meat and Poultry at the Market: What a Farmers' Market Manager Needs to Know. This publication is tailored specifically for market managers. It is an overview of the requirements farmers need to follow, with many of the specific details omitted.
  • Meat and Poultry at the Market: What a Farmer Needs to Know. This publication is written specifically for farmers. It has many specific details on what is required of farmers in order to sell at the farmers' market.




Other Contacts in New York


New York State Association of Meat Processors, Inc.
Warren F. Brannon, Secretary
61 Oak Hill Road, Moravia, NY 13118
(315) 497-1721


National Contacts


Niche Meat Processor Assistance Network (NMPAN) National Contacts

NMPAN Co-coordinators:

Dr. Arion Thiboumery
Iowa State University
Ames, IA
(515) 294-2882
arion@iastate.edu

Dr. Lauren Gwin
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR
(510) 388-4720
lauren.gwin@oregonstate.edu

Poultry processing questions:

Dr. Anne Fanatico
Poultry Production and Product Safety Research Unit
USDA Agriculture Research Service
Fayetteville, AR
afanati@uark.edu
(479) 575-2391


Mobile processing unit questions:

Bruce Dunlop
Island Grown Farmers Co-op
Lopez Island, WA
(360) 468-4620
bruce@lopezislandfarm.com


National Small Meat Processor Trade Associations

American Association of Meat Processors (AAMP)
One Meating Place, Elizabethtown, PA 17022
(877) 877-0168
aamp@aamp.com
www.aamp.com
AAMP works exclusively with small and very small meat processing plants. They often are able to provide detailed regulatory and production advice over the phone.


North American Meat Processors Association (NAMP)
1910 Association Drive, Reston, Virginia 20191
(703) 758-1900
www.namp.com
NAMP works with small and large meat processors.


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