WAMP Award Winner: Sailer's Food Market and Meat Processing

Wisconsin Association of Meat Processors Product Show Award Winners:

Today we begin a series of features on the Grand Champion winners at the WAMP product show:

Our first feature is Sailer’s Food Market and Meat Processing of Elmwood, WI. Sailer’s Meats was founded in 1923 and has been run by five generations of the Sailer family. It is a state inspected custom processor of Beef, Pork, Lamb, Buffalo and Red Deer, as well as processing Venison for hunters. They carry a full line of retail cuts of meat and award winning sausages including brats, wieners, summer sausage, bologna, snack stix and strips. They also carry many smoked and cured products, including their award winning smoked beef, bacon and smoked ham. In 2010 Sailer’s received the Grand Champion award in the Dried or Smoked Beef category as well as a Best of Show award for their Smoked Beef and the Grand Champion award for their Bacon. Additionally, they won three Reserve Grand Champion, four Champion and one Reserve Champion awards at the show. Sailer’s Food Market and Meat Processing is located at 600 W Winter Ave, Elmwood, Wisconsin 54740. For more information about Sailer’s, their history and a full list of the products and services they offer visit their website at http://www.sailersmeats.com/ or find them on Facebook.

Some Facts About Wisconsin Specialty Meats

• There are 289 small state-inspected meat processing and 65 custom slaughter facilities in Wisconsin, more than any other state in the country!


• The meat industry in Wisconsin employs 19,400 people directly and creates over 88,000 jobs when you consider direct and indirect employment


• In 2008 Wisconsin meat processors were awarded 10 Grand Champion and 4 Reserve Grand Champion titles at the American Association of Meat Processors Product Show out of 25 total classes

Welcome

Welcome to the blog for the Wisconsin Specialty Meat Initiative. Our goal is to showcase the small meat processors, artisan sausage and cured meat makers producing fine specialty meat products throughout the state of Wisconsin. While nearly everyone has heard of Wisconsin's artisanal cheeses far fewer are aware the the State has one of the strongest traditions of artisanal meat production in the country. The State has both a strong ethnic tradition with small local producers creating traditional old-world varieties of sausage found few other places in North America, and a drive for innovation that has producers creating new and delicious specialty meat products found nowhere else. With Wisconsin specialty meats you are assured a level of quality and safety that only comes from knowing your producer is comitted to the highest standards of artisanal production. Check back often to see spotlights on Wisconsin producers, specialty products and local events. Support local producers that hold themselves to the highest standards, buy Wisconsin specialty meat products!