The 2025 Best Butcher Contest will be held Thursday, May 15, 2025, at 1PM at the Penn State Meats Lab. Below you will find the Official Rules, Scoring Rubric and Application-.

Please reach out to Kaitlyn Swope, Director of Marketing with any questions at 814-623-2698

2025 Best Butcher Contest Official Rules

2025 Best Butcher Contest Scoring Rubric 

Interested in competing or know someone that should compete, submit your application today! 

click Here to Apply for the 2025 Best Butcher Contest

THANK YOU TO OUR 2024 CONTESTANTS!

 The 2024 PA Association of Meat Processors (PAMP) Conference was held on May 10th-13th, 2024. The 2024 Best Butcher Contest was held in conjunction with the Pennsylvania’s Pork Producer Council on May 10th at Penn State Meat Lab. 

 Read the event press release, here.   

THANK YOU TO OUR 2022 CONTESTANTS!

 The 2022 PA Association of Meat Processors (PAMP) Conference was held on May 12th-15th, 2022. The 2022 Best Beef Butcher Contest was held on Thursday, May 12th, 2022 at the Penn State Meats Lab. 

 Read the event press release, here.   

THANK YOU TO OUR 2019 CONTESTANTS!

until 3:00 pm. at the Penn State Meats Lab.  Feel free to check out our contest video to see what all went on during the contest!  We'd also encourage you to read the
event press release!