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.
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.
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.