MEAT Your Profit Potential: Alleghany Meats Site Visit
Market trends indicate consumers' desire to buy local meat; how can our facilities, retailers and restaurants capture those consumer dollars?
The WV Food and Farm Coalition Meat Working Group & partners VC2 and Natural Capital Investment Fund have developed a series of trainings for West Virginia’s niche meat businesses.
Join us for a site visit to an industry leader, Alleghany Meats, a cooperatively-owned full service, federally inspected meat processing facility located in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Alleghany Meats puts a focus on humane handling as well as customized cutting and packaging. Our tour will cover the areas of livestock handling, floor design, cooler system and freezer management, processing room management as well as curing, smoking and RTE products.
Logistics
Alleghany Meats is located 6 miles north of the town of Monterey on Route 220 at: 6095 Potomac River Road, Monterey, VA 24465.
A carpool from Lewisburg, WV will be organized, overnight lodging can be prearranged and the afternoon agenda will be finalized with the input of the participants.
Space is limited to 15 participants, so RSVP as soon as possible.
Agenda
7:00 AM Carpool departs
9:00 AM Arrive at Alleghany Meats
1:00 PM Box Lunch Picnic and Recap, Virginia Trout Company
2:00 PM Depart for Lewisburg
This is our third training out of five in a series supported by the Central Appalachian Network and BB&T. Training IV is being scheduled for October 2014 and will cover Poultry and Rabbit Processing and. Training V will take place in January 2016 and cover Workforce Development.