Project Meats

Hi, I'm Shane Flowers with Project Meats. We are a local meat processor doing business with places We have a lot to offer as far as that goes for what the new beef to school initiative is going on right now. In our particular situation, we're a federally inspected facility as far as the fresh meat goes and soon to be federally inspected as far as cooked meats goes. You can find a lot of establishments Here in the central to eastern side of the state, we have a lot of opportunity. We have a facility in Miles City where we do the fresh production and we do all the cooked production right here in Billings, Montana. Using some guys So as we go along, I kind of want to try to explain a few of the different things that we've done that might beneficial to different schools across our area as well as you might find them in other processors that are more in your area. So as we go forward just see what we have to do and check it out. We also provide a wide variety of value-added products for facilities that might be looking for a pre-cooked sausage that it's easy to get out there to the kids or different things We make breakfast patties that come into a ten pound box. You just pull them out get them cooked up for the kids as well as bacon. It's a big deal for us. We sell a lot of bacon through here and we sell it at a wholesale level. So it gives us a lot of opportunity to keep the price right, but it's a very high quality bacon that getting fairly well known in our area as well. We're currently trying to get, or will have I should say in the next couple months a machine here. It'll single-pack snack sticks too. So if you have a whether it's a concession stand or something that you sell out of your cafeteria or whatever that might be that Nobody's touching them anything So you just sell it to the individual they grab it out. There's no cross-contamination worries or anything So there's a lot of opportunity for value-added production or value-added sales that go into the schools that could really benefit them and make their jobs easier in the long run, hopefully. Because the more we can get done for you and the less work you have to do, the better off you're gonna be. We also provide obviously a wide range of fresh meat products. I mean burgers obviously a huge staple as far as giving these kids something that doesn't cost a lot of money. Giving them a high quality protein that doesn't cost a lot of money. So we provide that in a five pound package, boxed up how many ever pounds you want. We box that up and they're in there in five pound packages. Makes it real easy for you to pull them out, open them up, get them cooked up and we really pride ourselves, I guess, on the local side. It doesn't matter where we're at in this process. We do everything we can to provide local. And the one thing I can support with the ground beef side of things is you can find cheaper ground beef. I won't deny that. But the difference is sometimes what you're getting is what they're calling the finely textured lean ground beef. And it's just not the quality that you would hope for, especially feeding it to kids and to schools and stuff Everything we do is just straight off the carcass and fresh meat. And it's usually done as fast as we go through things. It's usually done within, say, that week, We're going through trim so fast that you're getting meat that was freshly taken that week. So it helps considerably. We also offer delivery services. So we have refrigerated vehicles in our area, whether we're in central Montana or eastern Montana. I've got delivery vehicles for all those kinds of scenarios. And that way we can get them to you under the regulations that's required of your school and make sure to get you taken care of as well as far as that goes. The one thing I didn'touch on real quick that I wanted to point out is well to do hamburger patties. So if your school You can just pop them out and cook them up and get them ready for those kids.