All of these case studies include photos, and some include actual unit designs.
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Island Grown Farmers Cooperative
The IGFC unit was the first USDA-inspected mobile slaughter unit in the U.S., in the San Juan Islands of Washington State.
Kentucky Mobile Poultry Processing Unit
The University of Kentucky makes their mobile poultry processing unit available to Kentucky producers, who are trained in food safety before using it.
Coast Grown Mobile Harvest Unit
This USDA-inspected MSU for red meat species, located in the Central Coast region of California, began operations in mid-2009, then stopped, and is preparing to re-start in the spring/summer of 2011.
Hudson Valley Poultry Processing
The builder/operator of this mobile poultry processing unit in New York designed it to be used by other, licensed producers to process their own birds for sale.
Spring Hill Poultry Processing
This mobile poultry processing unit was built by the state of Vermont as a prototype and is now operated as a private business by an experienced processor.
User's Guide to Montana Mobile Poultry Processing Unit (MPPU)
While not a case study exactly, this comprehensive guidebook explains how the Montana Poultry Growers Cooperative’s MPPU works. Each producer-member may process up to 20,000 birds per year using the MPPU. The guide covers: exemptions; labeling, licensing, and marketing; site requirements; GMPs, SSOPs, HACCP, SOPs; and record keeping.
Puget Sound Meat Producers Cooperative
Based in Tacoma, Washington, the PSMPC is a non-profit cooperative of local ranchers, farmers, butchers, restaurant owners, and others who jointly operate a mobile, USDA-inspected slaughter unit. It initially serviced King, Kitsap, Lewis, Mason, Pierce, and Thurston counties. The MSU is owned by the Pierce Conservation District; PSMPC leases it. The first animals were slaughtered in the unit in October 2009.
