Central Wyoming College (CWC) has received an $800,000 grant from Wyoming Works—a program that aims to help students develop vocational skills—for the development of a livestock slaughtering and meat processing program.
The grant will allow the college to hire a meat processing instructor and purchase a vehicle and equipment for a mobile slaughtering lab, according to Wyoming Public Media.
CWC President Brad Tyndall said the goal is to keep ranchers’ meat sold locally, as most producers will send their animals out of the county for feeding and slaughter.
“Most of them will send their animal off and someone else fattens it, slaughters it, gets all the revenue from sales, all the revenue from marketing,” Tyndall said. “And so for us to capture two-thirds more of the animal, we need to do the food processing piece.”
