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SWISS MEAT & SAUSAGE COMPANY CAPTURES TITLE IN WILD GAME SAUSAGE COMPETITION

Swiss Meat & Sausage Company, Hermann, Mo, not only captured the Missouri Grand Champion Wild Game title for their Buffalo Summer Sausage, but also took Reserve Grand Champion honors for their Elk Summer Sausage at the annual Missouri Association of Meat Processors annual meat competition and show held March 3-4 at the Holiday Inn Select, Columbia, Mo.. Cloud's Meat Processing, Carthage, took Champion with their Venison Summer Sausage while another Buffalo Summer Sausage made by Western's Smokehouse of Greentop was awarded Reserve Champion.

Swiss Meat uses this same award winning recipe to manufacture thousands of pounds of Venison Summer Sausage annually from deer harvested by deer hunters. Even though the number of deer harvested this past season was down, Swiss Meat still processed a record amount of deer sausages, jerky and snack sticks.

Swiss Meat has participated for many years as an official wildlife check station and they actively participate in the Share the Harvest Program. They were fortunate enough this past season to be offered additional sponsorship for this program from the Central Missouri Chapter Safari Club International, Jefferson City, as well as a local chapter of the Hunting & Fishing Club from Owensville High School. With this added sponsorship a hunter could drop off a deer to have processed and donated to Share the Harvest with absolutely no cost to him. This sponsorship nearly raised the amount of deer donated to local food pantries from Swiss Meat to nearly 1400 pounds!

We say to Swiss Meat, "Keep up the good work." Your sausages truly are award winning, and your contribution to the Share the Harvest program is outstanding.

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