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SUMMARY:Ensuring Quality from Pasture to Plate: A Meat Quality & Marketing Training
DESCRIPTION:Join NC Choices’ for a producer-oriented program\, Ensuring Quality from Pasture to Plate: A Meat Quality & Marketing Training\, taking you from pasture to package – covering live animal evaluation\, nutrition\, carcass assessment\, and bulk sales strategy. We’ll examine every stage of the process to understand how farm management and nutrition decisions directly impact product quality. Leave with the practical knowledge to understand your product at every step\, and the confidence to market it successfully to bulk buyers and build a thriving local meat business. \nThis intensive features a full day of classroom instruction led by Dr. Jennifer Martin (Colorado State University) and some of the field’s top experts in nutrition\, meat quality\, and marketing. We’ll examine every stage of the process to understand how farm management and nutrition decisions directly impact product quality. Leave with the practical knowledge to understand your product at every step\, and the confidence to market it successfully to bulk buyers and build a thriving local meat business. \nAttendees also have the option to add a pre-tour on Tuesday\, August 25. This all-day tour will include on-farm live animal evaluation followed by meat cutting demos at a USDA-inspected processor to evaluate meat quality from pasture to package. Pre-workshop tour space is very limited and first come\, first served. \nDates: Tuesday\, August 25 (optional pre-workshop tour)\, 8:00am-5:00pm \nWednesday\, August 26\, 2026 (workshop)\, 8:00am-5:00pm \nLocation: \nN.C. Cooperative Extension\, Randolph County Center\, \n1880 US Hwy 64E\, Asheboro\, NC \nTickets: Space is limited. Register here. \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThis NC Choices’ training is part of the Meat Summit’s national effort to strengthen local meat systems through focused supply chain conferences and summits. Read more about Meat Summits at www.MeatSummits.com \n \nSupport for this program is provided by USDA NIFA sponsorship award #20227042038269 to Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) & this material is based upon work supported by USDA/NIFA under Award # 2021-70027-34722. \nFunding for this work was also made possible by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service through grant I 25LFPPNC1283. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the USDA.
URL:https://cefs.ncsu.edu/event/ensuring-quality-from-pasture-to-plate/
LOCATION:N.C. Cooperative Extension\, Randolph County Center\, 1880 US Hwy 64E\, Asheboro\, NC\, 27203\, United States
CATEGORIES:CEFS,NC Choices,Workshops,Workshops and Educational Programs
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SUMMARY:2026 Farm to Early Care and Education Institute
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the 2026 Farm to Early Care and Education Institute! CEFS is happy to honor the hard work from the Farm to Early Childhood Education Local Food Purchasing Collaborative\, as well as look to the future and continue incorporating agriculture\, farming and gardening in the lives of children and in childcare development centers. \nInstitute: Saturday\, September 26\, 2026\, 9:00am-4:30pm \n\nLocation: Rocky Mount Event Center\, 285 NE Main Street\, Rocky Mount\, NC 27801 \n\n\n**Parking at Event Center is $10 per vehicle. Carpooling is encouraged**\n\n\n\nRegistration: Register here. \nAttend the Institute to… \n\n– Network with Farm to ECE leaders and continue growing our movement in NC! \n– Better understand the importance of community outreach\, collaboration and mentoring relationships in Farm to ECE programming \n– Participate in dynamic learning opportunities\, including keynote speakers and hands-on learning experiences \nWho’s invited? \nECE administrators and teachers\, technical assistance providers\, NC Cooperative Extension Agents and all those that want to help end childhood hunger and promote healthy eating habits in young children \n  \nFor more information\, contact: \nShironda Brown\, sewilli3@ncsu.edu \nThe Institute is generously sponsored by: \n \n 
URL:https://cefs.ncsu.edu/event/farm-to-ece-institute-2026/
LOCATION:Rocky Mount Event Center\, 285 NE Main St\, Rocky Mount\, NC\, 27801\, United States
CATEGORIES:CEFS,Farm to ECE Institute,Workshops,Workshops and Educational Programs
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