(NMB) At it’s last board meeting, Havre Public Schools decided to join Livingston based Producer Partnership, a program that will bring local beef to the district’s lunchrooms. President and founder of Producer Partnership Matt Pierson explains.
“The Producer Partnership is the only federally inspected, nonprofit processing facility in the United States and what that means is, we take in donated animals from all across Montana. We are able to process them here at our facility under inspection and put them back into schools and food banks all over Montana.”
Local producers are able to donate animals and in turn can help feed the kids of the community an all Montana product. A relationship that Pierson says is huge.
“We encourage the schools to help locate animals for their communities, from their communities and we bring them here and get them processed and obviously, put it back into their school. The ability for these schools to reach out to their own community members and make that connection is huge.”
All processing of the animals is free of charge and donating producers get a letter back based on the pounds of meat donated that they can take to their accountant,
Producers that want to find out more about the Producer Partnership or want to donate an animal can visit producerpartnership.com or call Havre Public Schools at 406-395-8550
