Progress 09/15/23 to 09/14/24
Outputs
Target Audience:Participants across the meat and poultry processing value chain delivered through 3 state level projects (2 in North Carolina and one in Texas). Audiences targeted includedthe following: poultry producers, small scale livestock farmers veterinarians meat (beef, poultry, turkey)processoremployees third-party live haul company representatives. beef industry associations consumers Engagement with participants sought to develop and evaluate handling, transport and processing practices.The proposed effort seeks to target the meat and poultry processing sector--processors, workers, growers/ranchers--with educational projects that enhance the sector's capacity, performance and resiliency. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?North Carolina Meat Conference:The conference had643 SME participants from across the southeast and nation. The final program is uploaded in the educational section of this report, which includes 70 training opportunities when you include the 50+ concurrent trainings, farm tours, and hands-on meat fabrication. In addition to the print program, we utilized a conference app called "Whova" which provided even more opportunities for conference attendees to network and engage with one another throughout the event. Please see the Whova impact report in the evaluation section of this report. Where's the Beef?: Launched the online course in mid November 2024. This includes a blog post, YouTube video, Texas A&M AgriLife Today article along with social media postings to promote the resources and training. Virtual Training to Manage Animal Welfare Risks: Online module development is underway with content being derived from focus groups and surveys from participants across the turkey producer and processing sectors. 72 participants partipated in focus group discussions and train-the-trainer program which is ongoing. Three online training modules are in process and being refined. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?For this report only the North Caroline Meat Conference has been delivered.Since the project worked with so many audience members across the supply chain to cover topics relevant to farmers, buyers, distributers, educators, culinary professionals and industry folks, the conference held a series of focus tracks divided by topic. We also included special training for FFA Agricultural Teachers, Family and Consumer Science &Livestock Extension Agents, and Culinary groups. Conference Promotional Materials: In addition to our press release, social media, e-news, and partner outreach, we also received significant coverage on the event from local media. The Carolina Meat Conference is part of a meatsummits.com network of other land-grant and non-profit organizations interested in holding their own version of a risk management local meat conference. The majority of the Meat Summit Group board attended the Carolina Meat Conference and shared lessons learned for developing future meat conferences across the country. Specifically, we will be collaborating with the Midwest Meat Summit to be held in January 2025 in Iowa and the Black Belt Meat Summit to be held in April 2025 in Tuskegee, Alabama. Conference photos can be found at the links below: Best Photos: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1S4OvAM1vyYNNbAzoFWRjiy8IOz7OG-zq?usp=drive_link Ten Price-to-Market Trainings to Help Farmers Manage Risks and Access DTC Customers: To date, we have completed 5 of our NC road tour trainings reaching 93 participants in just those trainings, however, our other road tours are scheduled! As we did in the spring, we are holding a NY road tour first to try out the new content with our partners at Cornell the week of October 20-25th in partnership with their NRME grant. We are then applying lessons learned for our NC road tour scheduled Nov.3-8, 2024. That road tour will include the new processor directory and new additional content to keep the material fresh. The NC road tour will cover central NC to the south west of the state. This region is both new to our road tour list and enables us to conduct processor visits during the day for processor directory sign ups (see below). Collectively for all of the funded projecs, outreach activities are being promoted to the targeted project partipants to encourage participants to take the Beef online course and raise awareness of the upcoming virtiual training opporunity. SRMEC continues to monitor each projects socail media efforts and leverages the individual project actions to promote the processing program across the region and the country. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?SRMEC will report on the fully completed online course offerings and track programmatic impacts and feedback from program participants. SRMEC will contiue to monitor the projects and collect success stories from the Caroline Meat Conference and their on-going Price-to-Market Trainings. The Centerwill continue to monitor the quarterly progress reports to capture project activities, outcomes and impacts.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
Three educational projects totalling $443,172 in funds are awarded to three separate educational projects. The funded projects are: Managing Risks across the Small Meat and Poultry Supply Chain in NC: Innovative Tools, Technical Support, Coordination, and Price-to-Market Training for Long-term Business Viability. North Carolina State University. $149,999. Virtual Training to Manage Animal Welfare Risk for Turkey Producers and Processors. North Caroling State University. $150,000. Where's the Beef? Economic and Legal Considerations for Direct Beef Sales Online Course. Texas A&M University. $143,183.
Publications
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Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2024
Citation:
Benavidez, Justin, Tiffany Dowell Lashmet, Garrett Reed, Elizabeth Rumley, and Sarah Patterson. Texas A&M Agrilife. Department of Agricultural Economics. AGEC-PU-184. April 2024.
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Progress 09/15/22 to 09/14/23
Outputs
Target Audience:SRMEC administers the grant funding and provides leadership across our regions to address local issues relevant to education and training opportunities for meat and poultry producers, processors, and distributors. The grant pool focuses supporting small-to-medium sized enterprises (SMEs) enhancement of sound risk management decisions. Targeted audience includes: educational institutions, farm, meat, and poultry organizations/associations, lenders, consultants, other risk management education providers. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?The awarded project contracts have been successfully executed and plans of work finalized. PIs begin initiating project activities in the Summer of 2023. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?The Extension Risk Management Education program worked collaboratively to announce the selection of the funded projects through a press release. The relase was shared with industry stakeholds and project's targeted audience. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?As SRMEC staff monitor the implementation and delivery of the funded projects, the Center will seek opportunities to promote trainings and success stories through our Center's social media activites. Efforts are also underway to have a project director meeting to enhance collaboration and networking opportunities for the funded efforts.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
SRMEC managed the release of an RFA, and administration of the review of the grant pool. A national evaluation panel was selected with equal representation from each region was selected to evaluate and select the funded projects. The reveiw process resulted in the selection of three (3) projects totally $443,173 in funding: Managing Risks Across the Small Meat and Poultry Supply Chain in NC: Innovative Tools, Technical Support, Coordination, and Price-to_Market Training for Long-Term Business Viability. North Carolina State University. NC. Virtual Training to Manage Animal Welfare Risk for Turkey Producers and Processors. North Carolina State University. NC. Where's the Beef? Econimc and Legal Considerations for Direct Beef Sales Online Course. Texas A&M Agrilife Extension. TX.
Publications
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