Program for meat processors planned at MCC

The Montana Meat Processors Association and Miles Community College in Miles City are working together to create the state’s first meat processing degree to address the demand in the meat processing industry’s diminishing workforce, the association announced during its annual meeting in Havre.

“We want the people that put on boots and a hard hat and can swing a knife all day,” MMPA President Jeremy Plummer said. “We’re wanting that skillset and there is really nothing like that now in the area, not in the northwestern part of the country.”

He said the country has a high dema...