How to Win Grant Funding

Business

How to Win Grant Funding

This comprehensive toolkit includes simple instructions for creating a competitive grant proposal.

Managing Carcass Cooling

Plant Operations

Managing Carcass Cooling

Use this basic outline to guide your facility and staff through a thorough carcass cooler organization and management plan.

Curing a Country Ham

Processing

Curing a Country Ham

Meat scientist Dr. Gregg Rentfrow guides you through the ham selection, trimming and curing process that leads to a delicious ham.

Grant Writing Fundamentals

Business

Grant Writing Fundamentals

Watch this in-depth workshop on grant writing, focusing on aligning project goals with funding opportunities, structuring clear objectives, and using logic models to demonstrate measurable outcomes.

Building a Successful Staff

Plant Operations

Building a Successful Staff

The accompanying PDF outlines the basic guidance you’ll need to set requirements, train staff and ensure the consistent performance your business needs to be successful.

Filleting or Pan Frying Fish

Meat Cutting

Filleting or Pan Frying Fish

Dr. Rentfrow takes us through two fundamental methods of fish cutting – pan frying preparation for smaller pan fish and fileting for larger game fish.

Pork Carcass Fabrication

Meat Cutting

Pork Carcass Fabrication

Watch this detailed video from the University of Kentucky for a good look at the cuts of pork you typically sell to your customers.

Sausages Around the World

Customer Resources

Sausages Around the World

Use this handy glossary of sausages to brush up on your knowledge of worldwide sausage names, descriptions and groupings.

Producing Safe Sausages

Equipment

Producing Safe Sausages

This guide outlines the USDA safety requirements and the right temperature and humidity necessary to safely produce dry and semi-dry sausages.

Hot Box Carcass Cooler Guide

Plant Operations

Hot Box Carcass Cooler Guide

This guide offers some key considerations to determine size, materials and cooling capacity for a carcass cooler.

HACCP Plan Basics

HACCP

HACCP Plan Basics

Follow this Food Safety Road Map for all the components you need for hazard analysis, including a link to creating your own HACCP plan.

Writing Your Sanitation SOP

Sanitation

Writing Your Sanitation SOP

This extremely useful guide outlines the general headlines and details you’ll want to capture when writing your own Sanitation SOP.