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Employees weighing and packaging meat in the Bourbon Barrel Beef Retail Shop.

Understanding Meat Processing Weights: Live Weight, Hanging Weight & Packaged Weight

There are three types of weight that meat processors use: live weight, hanging weight, and packaged weight. Whether you’re a processor or a customer purchasing…

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Tips for Buying Meat from Local Producers and Processors

More Americans are buying meat directly from farmers, ranchers, and independent processors who they trust. This supports local agriculture and provides access to high-quality meat—along…

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Smiling MTX Beef butchers fabricate and breakdown beef carcasses on tables in their Friesla Cut & Package Module.

Video Stories of Small, Local Meat Processing Businesses

A local meat processing business starts with a vision: an idea, answer to a question, or solution to a problem. What if you have this…

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Butcher with blue gloves and a white smock holding seven beef steaks.

Where, How, To Whom? Thinking About Sales as an Independent Meat Processor

Meat processors are passionate about craft butchery and high-quality meat production, but some can overlook a key reality: where, how, and to whom will they…

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Smiling butcher removes pieces of hide from a hanging carcass.

From Feeder to Eater: Real Stories of Local Meat Processors

Every Friesla Meat Processing System is different, and the goals and operational setups are diverse. But the one thing in common is that all of…

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Butchers transfer quartered beef carcasses from a Friesla Mobile Harvest Unit into The Meating Place Butcher Shop.

Client Story: The Meating Place

Craft butcher shops used to be a staple in communities across America. Consumers had access to fresh, locally-produced meat, hand cut by butchers they knew…

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