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Iowa, Nebraska Lawmakers Designate Funds to Help Small Meat Lockers
Ingels mentioned the training program is a optimistic step for each staff and homeowners of small meat lockers.
A program to show the commerce ought to create a provide of staff for an business that’s going through a scarcity of staff. Extra staff ought to permit lockers to develop into extra environment friendly and, extra importantly, enhance their capability, he mentioned.
Livestock producers have confronted lengthy waits to get animals in native meat lockers, particularly in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. Some producers reported their native lockers not having open dates for a yr or extra.
Some livestock producers are even buying small meat processors of their areas to increase their companies. The brand new academic program might support livestock producers to study the particulars of processing meat, Ingels mentioned.
HF 2470 requires the state to create and preserve a library of assets for Iowa meat processing companies, in accordance with a information launch from the Middle for Rural Affairs (https://www.cfra.org/…). The invoice additionally asks the Iowa Division of Agriculture and Land Stewardship to create a direct-to-consumer toolkit.
“The duty power was a wide range of people looking for an strategy that may be greatest for our business,” mentioned Dan Julin, co-owner of Arcadia Meats in Arcadia, Iowa, and member of the duty power that advisable creating the certificates program on artisanal butchery. “We wish extra folks to get keen on all features of our business — from harvesting to butchery. I hope they’ll see that they’ll make a livelihood doing so.”
Ingels mentioned roughly 15 small meat processers had been helped with cash from the state’s Butchery Innovation and Revitalization Fund program in 2021. About 50 companies utilized for this system, he mentioned.
Johnathan Hladik, coverage director for the Middle for Rural Affairs, mentioned in a information launch he hopes the elevated funding helps extra small meat lockers within the Hawkeye State.
“We all know there may be excessive demand for these grants, with the variety of candidates far exceeding funded proposals,” Hladik mentioned. “This extra funding can be well-used by Iowa’s small meat processers, serving to them enhance capability and higher serve their clients.”
Ingels mentioned he hopes future Iowa laws will focus extra on the advertising and marketing facet for these small meat processors. Making a model might assist these companies promote extra of their product, he mentioned.
As well as, future laws might deal with the labor scarcity small meat lockers are going through, he added.
NEBRASKA INVESTS $10 MILLION
In the meantime, throughout the Missouri River to the west, Nebraska additionally crafted laws to help small meat processers. The elevating and processing of beef is massive enterprise within the state, which options the phrase “The Beef State” on considered one of its vainness license plate designs.
Legislative Invoice (LB) 324 (https://www.nebraskalegislature.gov/…), launched in January 2021, modified provisions of the Nebraska Meat and Poultry Inspection Regulation. Among the many modifications, the laws made it simpler for shoppers to buy particular person packages of meat instantly from producers or processors. The invoice additionally allowed producers and shoppers extra flexibility to determine the place their meat is processed. It additionally created the Impartial Processor Help Program, meant to offer a roadmap for growing native processing capability and increasing market entry for small producers.
This system’s funding was authorised by the Nebraska Unicameral (the state’s distinctive legislator) on this yr’s legislative session as LB1014 (https://nebraskalegislature.gov/…). Each final yr’s and this yr’s payments had been launched by State Sen. Tom Brandt of Plymouth.
LB1014 appropriated $10 million in funds from the federal Coronavirus State Fiscal Restoration Fund to the Nebraska Division of Agriculture for the Impartial Processor Help Program.
DTN has lined the problems going through small meat processors. Elevated demand for his or her enterprise mixed with COVID-19 left livestock producers with lengthy waits to course of their animals (https://www.dtnpf.com/…).
The web Nebraska information supply Nebraska Examiner additionally lately wrote concerning the state’s small meat processor grant program (https://nebraskaexaminer.com/…).
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Nebraska football’s 2025 season opener just got a little closer.
The Huskers were originally slated to take on Cincinnati at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. That game has now been moved more than 400 miles closer to Kansas City.
Nebraska and Cincinnati will open 2025 at Arrowhead Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 28. The kickoff time and television network will be determined during the Big 12’s television selection process in the spring.
Nebraska Director of Athletics Troy Dannen said the move of the game to Kansas City is a perfect fit for the Huskers’ season opener.
“We are pleased to partner with the University of Cincinnati and the Kansas City Chiefs to bring our 2025 season-opening matchup to Arrowhead Stadium,” Dannen said. “Since arriving at Nebraska, one constant message I have heard from our fans is they miss having road football games that are within driving distance. This game offers an excellent opportunity for our great fan base to make a short trip to watch the Huskers open the season and enjoy Labor Day weekend in Kansas City.”
Tickets for the Nebraska-Cincinnati contest will go on sale this week. All tickets will be sold online at www.chiefs.com/tickets/ and www.ticketmaster.com. No tickets will be sold through the Nebraska Athletic Ticket Office.
Nebraska and Cincinnati season ticket holders will receive the first opportunity to buy tickets, beginning Tuesday at 9 a.m. CST. A public on-sale for tickets will begin Wednesday at 10 a.m. CST.
Arrowhead Stadium, the home of the NFL’s Kansas City Chiefs, hosted several college games in 2024. The Kansas Jayhawks, who are continuing construction in Lawrence on the football stadium and surrounding area, played multiple “home” games in Kansas City.
The Huskers have played at Arrowhead twice, beating Oklahoma State during the 1998 regular season and losing to Oklahoma in the 2006 Big 12 championship game.
One other change in the scheduled matchups between Nebraska and Cincinnati involves the future game at Memorial Stadium. The teams will now meet in Lincoln on Sept. 10, 2033, after previously being scheduled to play during the 2032 season.
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The NCAA women’s volleyball final four will feature all four No. 1 seeds, as Nebraska and Penn State won their regional finals Sunday, joining Pitt and Louisville, who advanced Saturday.
The national semifinals are Thursday in Louisville, with the hometown Cardinals facing the Panthers at 6:30 p.m. ET, followed by the Huskers vs. the Nittany Lions. Both matches are on ESPN. The national championship match will be Sunday, Dec. 22, at 3 p.m. ET on ABC.
Both semifinals match up conference foes. ACC rivals Louisville and Pitt are each seeking their first national championship in volleyball. It’s very different on the other side of the bracket: Big Ten rivals Penn State (seven) and Nebraska (five) have 12 NCAA titles and nine runner-up finishes between them.
During the regular season, No. 1 overall seed Pitt beat Louisville in their two matchups, and Penn State beat Nebraska in their meeting.
The Huskers, now in their 18th NCAA final four, advanced easily Sunday, sweeping Wisconsin 26-24, 25-17, 25-21. Taylor Landfair, a senior playing her first season at Nebraska after transferring from Minnesota, led the Huskers with 11 kills. Nebraska also swept the Badgers in both Big Ten regular-season meetings this year.
Penn State is making its 14th NCAA final four but had a tougher go of it Sunday. The Nittany Lions were pushed to five sets by No. 2 seed Creighton, which was trying to make its first final four and set up an all-Nebraska-school semifinal. But the Nittany Lions, with the advantage of playing the regional on their home court like the other No. 1 seeds, took the fifth set 15-7. Jess Mruzik led Penn State with 20 kills.
No woman head coach has ever won the NCAA Division I volleyball championship, which was first contested in 1981. But there is a chance it could happen this year, as two women — Louisville’s Dani Busboom Kelly and Penn State’s Katie Schumacher-Cawley — are in the final four.
The only coach in the final four who has previously won a title is Nebraska’s John Cook, who has four of the Huskers’ titles. All of Penn State’s championships came under Russ Rose, who retired after the 2021 season.
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