Meat the future

The University of Nevada Cooperative Extension is expanding its very successful meat-processing certification classes with additional Basics 1 workshops and adding a new Basics 2 program.Begun in 2012, the workshops on harvesting and processing meat are part of the extension’s Herds & Harvest Program, which began with a USDA Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program grant.Half-day workshops are held at UNR’s Wolf Pack Meats plant, one of the few small meat processing plants certified