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Mobile slaughter/processing units currently in operation

Last Updated: November 10, 2009 Related resource areas: Small Meat Processors

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Mobile slaughter and processing units are now in operation around the country.
Here is some basic info about them.

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Poultry Units

Sierra Foothills (CA)


Kentucky Mobile Poultry Processing Unit

  • Frankfort, Kentucky
  • Inspection: State approved, but uninspected
  • Species: poultry (e.g. chickens, turkeys, pheasants, quail) and aquaculture (e.g. caviar, paddle fish, prawns)
  • Capacity per day: 400 birds (assuming 3-4 workers)
  • Detailed case study, with photos: Kentucky Mobile Poultry Processing Unit


Foothills Family Farms (NC)

  • Old Fort, North Carolina
  • Species: poultry and rabbit
  • Inspection: Each producer operates under the Producer/Grower 1,000 Bird Exemption
  • Foothills Family Farms
  • 788 Mt. Hebron Road, Old Fort NC 28762
  • 828-216-2966
  • Foothills Family Farms website


Community Agricultural Development Center (WA)


Vermont Mobile Processing Unit


Montana Poultry Growers Cooperative


Red Meat Units

Coast Grown (CA)

  • San Luis Obispo, California
  • Inspection: USDA Inspected
  • Species: beef, lamb, swine, goat
  • Capacity per day: 5 beef or 10 hogs or 20 lambs and goats
  • Operated by the Central Coast Agriculture Cooperative
  • (805) 489-1255
  • info@coastgrown.com
  • P.O. Box 3907, San Luis Obispo, CA 93403
  • Coast Grown
  • Detailed case study, with photos: Coast Grown Mobile Harvest Unit


Taos County (NM) Economic Development Corporation

  • New Mexico
  • Inspection: USDA Inspected
  • Species: beef, swine, sheep
  • Capacity per day: 5-24 animals
  • Taos County Economic Development Corporation
  • (505) 758-8731
  • TCEDC website


Wild Idea Buffalo (SD)

  • Rapid City, South Dakota
  • Species: buffalo
  • Wild Idea Buffalo Company
  • P.O. Box 1209, Rapid City SD 57709-1209
  • 1-866-658-6137, 605-716-0572
  • info@wildideabuffalo.com
  • Wild Idea Buffalo website


Island Grown Farmers Cooperative (WA)

  • Bow, Washington
  • Inspection: USDA Inspected
  • Species: all four legs
  • Capacity per day: 9-10 head beef (or 40 sheep or 24 pigs)
  • (360) 766-4273
  • info@igfcmeats.com
  • IGFC Meats
  • Detailed case study, with photos: Island Grown Farmers Cooperative


Thundering Hooves (WA)

This link is to an article about Joel Huesby and Thundering Hooves, by Tony Malmberg, in Holistic Management International's magazine In Practice, May/June 2009. Malmberg offers a richly detailed look at the challenges of running your own meat processing business and how the Huesbys are working to meet those challenges.


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