In a normal year, we would be presenting Independent Processor’s annual Processor of the Year Award to a company that best exemplifies all of the qualities of a small or mid-sized meat processor. In a normal year, it’s a difficult process to determine which company to choose. However, there has been nothing normal about this year since mid-March.
Following the arrival of the Coronavirus in the United States, most of the country shut down. Any business deemed non-essential closed down, and most of the country spent week after week in their houses or apartments. Workers in the meat industry, though, got up the next morning and went to work, same as they always did.