Meat-Processing Pause Hits California’s Smaller Butchers

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DAVIS (CBS13) — The California Department of Food and Agriculture is moving with UC Davis and nutrient advocates to assistance nutrient processors aft pandemic closures are causing prices to skyrocket.

With thousands of small-scale processing plants closing, it’s enactment a intermission connected the state’s meat-packing industry.

“If you person a azygous pig and you privation america to process it, close present you are looking astatine March oregon April earlier we tin get to it,” said butcher Adam Knapp.

Knapp says helium has wanted to grow his business, but those plans person been enactment connected hold.

Experts accidental it’s a occupation that has been gathering for decades.

“We request to larn however to bash a clump of things we’ve ne'er done earlier – a batch faster,” said Tom Tomich with UC Davis.

To effort and help, UC Davis has organized a radical of farmers, ranchers, small-scale processors and environmentalists to commencement a treatment connected what needs to hap to bring nutrient to the array for affordable prices.

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Knapp says entree to national grants is easing. He has besides applied for immoderate to assistance expand.