Math, Schweitzer elected to MT Premium Processing board

Michelle Math and Walter Schweitzer have been elected to the Montana Premium Processing Cooperative Board of Directors during recent elections held by the co-op.

Each will serve a three-year term helping to direct the member-owned, USDA inspected meat processing facility located in Havre.

Math, a graduate of MSU-Billings, also serves as a board member for the Rancher Stewardship Alliance and ranches with her husband near Whitewater. She called MPPC on the Hi-Line “crucial” to the growth of her family’s and others’ operations.

Schweitzer is a third-generation farmer and President of Montana Farmers Union. He is passionate about resilient local food supply chains and helped with the formation of both MPPC and Glacier Processing Cooperative in Columbia Falls.

Montana Premium Processing Co-op processes beef, hogs, sheep, goats, and bison, and has undergone growth since opening in 2023. Most recently, the co-op received $250,000 in Local Meat Capacity grant funds from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. MPPC will use the funds to equip a value-added space at the facility, including a smoker, cooler, vacuum sealer, briner/injector, and machine to make sausages, as well as other equipment for the slaughter floor to handle the increase in animals processed.

Learn more about the facility and how to become a member at www.mtpremiumprocessing.com.