Ronald Richard, M.S.

Ron is the Manager of UI Meat Laboratory; "Vandal Brand Meats".  Vandal Brand Meats is a full service butcher shop. The students Ron employs get a detailed understanding of meats and the meat industry.  Each year Ron's employees create an original recipe and produce a meat product to take to competition at the Northwest Meat Processors meetings.  This year the group won first place in the college division for their original recipe, "Shakin, Bakin Sausage"!  The UI Meat Lab is an essential element for "hands on learning" as co-instructor in AVS 263, Live Animal and Carcass Evaluation and AVS 363, Animal Production for Human Consumption