The slaughter house meat LLC is a very small slaughter and meat processing plant in the rural community of melbourne, iowa - more than 2 hours from another CIS or federal facility

The Slaughter House Meats LLC received a $200,000 Project Grant award from the US Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service under the Meat and Poultry Inspection Readiness Grants – Supplemental Funding program (CFDA 10.180). The funding will support the company's expansion of an existing 3,500 square foot meat processing facility located in Marshalltown, IA. Specifically, the grant will add a 2,450 square foot expansion to accommodate slaughter and processing operations under one roof. It will also enable the acquisition of cold storage, a splitting saw, patty former, and brine pump to ensure the facility meets food safety standards for temperature control and sanitation required to become an interstate shipment facility. This is expected to increase the company's meat harvesting and processing capacity by over 1 million pounds annually. The award was issued on September 30, 2021 and has a completion date of September 29, 2024.

We operate a 3,500 SQ. FT. Facility for processing and rent a slaughter space at a separate site several miles away. Each year, we work with 150 unique farmers from a 60+ mile radius. We offer retail products at our store in melbourne, which is the only source of fresh food within 30 miles. Our services are booked out into february of 2022 or later. We want to become a cooperative interstate shipment facility, but currently our facility is not suitable for fsis expectations. To fix this and take advantage of sales opportunities in minnesota and nebraska, we propose adding a 2450 SQ. FT. Expansion to the shop we own to accommodate our operation under one roof. We also propose adding cold storage capacity, a splitting saw, patty former, and a brine pump to ensure our storage and processing operation is fsis compliant with temperature and sanitary requirements. Altogether, we expect this project to expand our harvest and processing capacity by 1,080,000 new pounds during the grant period. We also expect to create 6 new jobs and grow sales by $3,312,000 during the grant period