Articles Tagged with ''AAMP''

Independent Processor editor-in-chief Sam Gazdziak spoke with Dr. Liz Boyle of Kansas State University about judging the specialty game meats and flavored snack sticks.

Independent Processor editor-in-chief Sam Gazdziak spoke with Roger Alewel about judging the heavy weight bacons.

Independent Processor editor-in-chief Sam Gazdziak attended the 2016 American Cured Meat Championships in Omaha, Neb. to talk to the judges and contestants.

Sailer’s Food Market & Meat Processing won the Clarence Knebel Memorial Award, which honors the “Best of the Best” from the award-winning products entered in the annual American Cured Meat Championships.

Dewig Meats won the Cured Meats Excellence Award, which recognizes the processor that competed the best through the entire competition, at the 2016 American Cured Meat Championships.

In this video Q&A, Chris Young, Executive Director of AAMP, discusses the biggest challenges and opportunities for small processors. Young also discusses how AAMP partnered with IFFA to bring the meat judging competition to the United States.

IFFA held one of three satellite meat competitions in the Madison, Wisconsin.

Earlier this year, the University of Wisconsin-Madison became an international hotspot for the meat-processing industry — even as temperatures hovered around 0°F. UW-Madison was the location of the first-ever U.S.-IFFA Quality Competition, held January 11-13.