NLPA Helps Fund Meat Pies

October 17, 2008 - A simple meat pie created 125 years ago is now making life easier for housewives as well as bachelors living in the American Northwest who need a fast, delicious meal during these busy times.

In 1883, Thomas Morrison started Morrison Meat Pie Company. He was a recent immigrant to the United States, and his first business was selling a tasty Scottish hot meat pie on the streets of Salt Lake City. Today, Morrison Scottish meat pies and Aussie Pies are being marketed in a number of outlets in Utah and has, for the first time in its history, expanded out-of-state into Oregon, Washington and an eight-state region including North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico and Arizona. It also ships anywhere in the United States to customers through its internet site.

In 2006, the owners of Morrison's submitted a business plan to the National Livestock Producers Association (NLPA) Sheep & Goat Fund to show how the company could increase lamb consumption in the United States by providing a value-added lamb product in a convenient, less-expensive medium. Later that year, NLPA approved the request, and Morrison Meat Pies received its funding. Thus far, the company has used the funds to increase the automation of its plant and to create a product new to the U.S. market called the "Aussie Travelers Pies" or "Aussie Pie" using locally produced lamb.

To read the entire article or for more information about the NLPA Sheep & Goat Fund contact NLPA at 800-237-7193 or visit www.sheepandgoatfund.com

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