Poultry Scholarships a Great Option for Year-End Charitable Contributions
The Midwest Poultry Consortium provides scholarships to promising and driven college students interested in learning about and working with poultry. We also coordinate and provide funds to bring in the guest faculty that make the Center of Excellence (COE) learning experience great. Scholarships can be offered because of the generosity of company and association sponsors – and some past graduates too. Please consider making an individual gift to help make this possible for future COE students.
We made year-end contributions to the COE as easy as possible. Click here to be taken to our GiveMN page which allows for a quick way to show your support for the program which has educated hundreds of students in support of the poultry industry.
Any gift, large or small is welcome. Consider making a tax-deductible gift to the COE today! (A mail-in form can be found here as well.)
Looking for other ways to support? Contribute to MPC at no cost to you when you do your last minute Christmas shopping on AmazonSmile and make the Midwest Poultry Consortium your charity of choice. Amazon will donate 0.5% of the price of your eligible purchases to MPC. It is the same Amazon you know and love – and you don’t pay more for the items you buy.
Help add value to the COE network, join us on LinkedIn and catch-up with what past COE students are doing now.
Thank you for your support and we wish you the happiest of holidays!
Preventing Breast Blisters and Buttons
Gary Hall and Hugo Camacho, Hybrid Turkeys
The incidence of breast blisters and buttons in turkey production represents a damaging issue for animal welfare and economic sustainability. At processing, blisters and buttons can cause downgrading, loss of meat, and increased processing time. What causes blisters and buttons and what can turkey growers do to recognize and prevent them? Click
here for the complete article.
Want to attract more COE graduates to your company? Don’t forget, Midwest Poultry Consortium has a great resource to connect people looking for careers in the poultry industry with MPC sponsor companies seeking to fill positions with qualified candidates.
Sponsors are able to post jobs, for free, to the MPC job board which is utilized by upcoming graduates as well as COE alumni. MPC's jobs page allows prospective, past, and current COE students to learn about poultry career opportunities. It also allows MPC sponsor companies a convenient way to reach COE students who may be interested in applying for open positions.The jobs page can be found under the Center of Excellence tab of the MPC website or by clicking here.
MPC sponsors looking to post a position on the jobs page should email a job description with application information to mpc@mwpoultry.org. Job openings are also promoted on MPC's social media sites.
