About 20 meat cutters with Albertsons Companies sharpened their skills during a recent training workshop that University of Idaho’s meat science team facilitated at the True West Beef plant in Jerome.

As the name implies, meat cutters cut meat. Al DiPasquale, owner of the meat market Skip’s on the Ridge, differentiates meat cutters from butchers, saying butchers typically work in slaughterhouses ...

Justice Wahid Cotton (left) cuts up pieces of beef with other workers at Carlson Meat Shop in Grove City, Minn. Jesse Weseman, Wahid Cotton’s mentor, said that he is eager to learn about meat cutting.

During a tour Monday of Carlson Meat Shop in Grove City, college officials talked about the broad popularity of the program and the need for it. Though the program has been promoted only in Minnesota, ...

STAPLES, Minn. — Parker Witulski grew up in agriculture in southeast Nebraska and wanted to find a way to stay in agriculture in his career path. When he turned 16, he landed a job at a local meat ...

GROVE CITY, Minn. — The first students in Ridgewater College’s meat-cutting course might already have jobs in the new year. During a tour of Carlson Meat Shop in Grove City Monday, Oct. 17, college ...

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