Producer Partnership looks to work with ranchers in Western Montana
The Producer Partnership was founded in Spring 2020 with the mission to end hunger in Montana. (Photo provided)
Jeri Delys lives in Frenchtown and is the program Manager for The Producer Partnership based in Livingston, Montana. This is the first of its kind in the private sector of helping the hungry and providing a tax incentive to ranchers who care to donate a cull animal to their organization.
The idea started in 2020. The demand for beef was very high and the availability of processing could not keep up.
Matt Pierson, a fifth-generation Montana rancher out of Livingston, witnessed how hard Covid was on their community and wanted to help. So he and his family decided to take a few of their own cull cows, get them processed and donate the beef.
“Matt reached out to a few of his neighbors and friends in the area and asked if they wanted to make a cull animal donation as well," said Jeri Delys, Producer Partnership program manager. "The program took off on its own and other producers in the nearby areas began calling Matt and dropping their cull animals off in his corrals to be processed and donated to the local food bank.”
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