MEAT People
MEAT People
Podcast Description
MEAT People is the official podcast of SMA (Southwest Meat Association)— a twice-monthly audio and video series designed to connect, celebrate, and inform SMA members and industry stakeholders. Hosted primarily by SMA Member, Neil Dudley with Pederson’s Farms, with rotating co-hosts and guests. MEAT People will showcase stories from across the meat processing and packing industry, highlight SMA’s resources and events, provide updates, and foster networking within this unique and collaborative industry community. The tone will be welcoming, conversational, and informative — like catching up with family at a reunion (except with more brisket).
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The podcast focuses on various topics within the meat processing and packing industry, including the importance of community in associations, the evolution of SMA, memorable figures in SMA history, current events affecting the industry, regulatory compliance, and discussions surrounding the SMA convention and networking opportunities. Episodes feature insights from industry leaders and aim to foster collaboration among members.
MEAT People is the official podcast of SMA (Southwest Meat Association)— a twice-monthly audio and video series designed to connect, celebrate, and inform SMA members and industry stakeholders. Hosted primarily by SMA Member, Neil Dudley with Pederson’s Farms, with rotating co-hosts and guests. MEAT People will showcase stories from across the meat processing and packing industry, highlight SMA’s resources and events, provide updates, and foster networking within this unique and collaborative industry community. The tone will be welcoming, conversational, and informative — like catching up with family at a reunion (except with more brisket).
Neil interviews David Englutt about his life, singing, sales career, and long involvement with the Southwest Meat Association (SMA). Englutt describes gaining confidence singing classic country and Western swing (Ray Price, Johnny Bush, Faron Young, Bob Wills) and appearing with the Western Swing Music Society of the Southwest, including a March showcase in Wichita Falls. He outlines his career path from Tarleton State—where he joined activities, discovered meat judging, and won a national championship—into Cargill as its first pork-division management trainee, helping start plants in Beardstown, Illinois and Ottumwa, Iowa, then moving through Smithfield/Gwaltney, Jimmy Dean/Sara Lee, and into equipment and packaging sales before joining Townsend Engineering and later Morrell, which was acquired by JBT. Englutt shares customer-retention keys (integrity, product knowledge, consistency), a sales process acronym “PATTERN,” and emphasizes relationship-building. He recalls his first SMA convention in San Antonio and serving multiple terms on the board, describing SMA as a supportive, family-like community.
SMA StartKleen Dove Hunt
Friday Oct. 2, 2026 – Saturday October 3, 2026
Copper Ridge Ranch
Nocona, Texas
Visit www.southwestmeat.org to register.
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Topics
01:24 How Singing Started
03:00 Old School Country Tales
04:08 What He Does Today
04:42 Mergers and Growth
05:40 Keeping Customers
07:07 Meat Judging Roots
08:11 Getting Involved Early
10:48 Cargill Career Break
13:59 Smithfield and Tar Heel
15:16 Learning to Sell
19:14 Sales Process Pattern
21:37 First SMA Convention
24:59 SMA Family Culture
26:28 Final Thanks and Wrap
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