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Find Em', Keep Em': How to find, hire, train, & retain good labor for your meat plant

Part 1 of our Human Resources webinar series: Hear from 3 different meat processors different strategies and best practices for finding, hiring, training, and retaining decent staff for their facilities. Panelists include Joe Cloud of T & E Meats in Virginia, a USDA inspected red meat plant that co-packs for several hundred farmers; Bruce Hennessey of Maple Wind Farms in Vermont, a USDA inspected on-farm poultry plant and livestock farm; and Evan Gunthorp of Gunthorp Farms in Indiana, a USDA inspected on-farm red meat and poultry plant and livestock farm.

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