Meat Processor Career Paper

The career that caught my eye was a butcher or meat processor. A butcher or a meat processor will cut, trim, bone, tie and grind meats such was beef, pork, and lamb ready to be cooked. A meat processor slaughters, weighs, wraps and labels the different cuts of meat. They will also prepare a special order or a special cut requested by the customer.
A butcher and meat processor would fall under the green agriculture, food and natural resources sector of the circle. It falls under the green because it would deal with agriculture as in farmers with livestock animals such as lamb, beef or pork. This job would also fall under the yellow portion as being an owner of my own business. This type of job deals with food by taking apart the animal that is brought in by the farmer and taking the meat and making it into food products. This career’s highest level of education required would be a high school diploma and small percentage of a college degree or higher. For the business part of the job you could take business classes that deal with book keeping, investing, and marketing your product. A person could also take some classes to learn a trade to be able to perform your own upkeep, such was electrical or plumbing classes. The wages of a meat cutter in the state of Nebraska yearly median is $27,450 was compared to the rest of the United States is …show more content…
We currently have our own locker that is State inspected. The only downside is that we can not slaughter anywhere on the homestead and we do not have a place to hang the product for a period of time. Thanks to my father and grandfather, I have experience in the field of butchering and meat processing. My goal is to build or purchase a locker that could support a high volume of livestock at one time. I am currently pursuing a business opportunity to purchase an established locker upon graduating next