Feasibility Analysis for a Mobile Slaughter Unit

This excel-based planning tool, based on the Thundering Hooves mobile processing unit in Washington State, lets you test the feasibility of owning and operating a similar unit yourself, based on your data: # of head, days/week used, yield assumptions, pricing, and other details. The program is set up for the MPU to work with a local processor to cut and wrap the meat.

This tool was created by Kathleen Painter, an analyst at the Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources, Washington State University, in Pullman, WA. If you have questions or feedback please contact her. Email: kpainter@wsu.edu.

This PDF will show you an example of how the spreadsheets work.

Here is the actual planning tool.