On June 17th, Flower Hill Institute's Regional Director of Technical Assistance Chris Roper made a site visit to Barnsdall Meat Processing in Barnsdall, Oklahoma which made him stop and reflect on how fortunate we are after seeing the damage left from two deadly tornadoes that hit the small community within a five week period.
Resilient
That’s one of the three words the Biden administration used in January 2022 to describe its commitment to smaller meat and poultry processors nationwide: “A fairer, more competitive, and more resilient meat and poultry supply chain.”
Flower Hill's regional Directors, Chris Roper and Dave Carter, have met with hundreds of processors over the past two years as they traveled through 38 states, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands as part of the Meat and Poultry Processing Technical Assistance (MPPTA) program.