The 2023 Intercollegiate Meat Judging season began with AMSA planning, organizing, and facilitating several intercollegiate meat judging contests to include the National Western in Honor of R. Paul Clayton, the Southwestern and South Plains Intercollegiate Meat Judging Contests.
Attendees gain a better understanding of Seaboard Foods farm and plant operations to use in their curriculums and help teach about agribusiness to their students.
The Department of Animal Sciences at Washington State University (WSU) with approximately 550 undergraduate students has recently reinvigorated its offering of meat science-focused classes, extension programs, and student opportunities.
In the February issue of Independent Processor, I gave a brief background about a long-standing Southwest Meat Association’s (SMA) member of 50-plus years, Columbia Packing Co. Columbia Packing is an independent family-owned business, located in Ennis, Texas, approximately 40 miles south of Dallas along Interstate 45. Follow along to a quick Q&A interview Amber Ondrusek, the first woman president of Columbia Packing Co.
Prairie View A&M University, located 45 miles northwest of Houston in Prairie View, Texas, has a brand-new Meat Science Center to continue the vision of the late Lindsey Weatherspoon, renowned College of Agriculture and Human Sciences professor who expanded meat science studies at PVAMU in the 1960’s.