Country view meats, northampton county, pennsylvania is a small husband and wife meat productprocessing plant located on the well-established 60 acre country view HOG farm

Country View Meats in Danielsville, Pennsylvania received a $200,000 Project Grant 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 improvements to Country View Meats' small meat processing facility and operations over a three year period ending September 2024. Specifically, the grant will assist the husband and wife owned business with upgrading equipment and facilities to meet USDA inspection standards necessary for obtaining federal grant of inspection approval and expanding processing from two to three hogs per week to a fully inspected facility.

Processing started IN2020, during the COVID19 restrictions meat product shortage, producing custom processing and retailexempt cuts to local customers sold direct from the farm. Current freezer storage capacity allows forprocessing two to three (2-3) hogs each week year round that have been raised on country view hogfarm. All products are frozen and purchased online for curbside pickup. The processing facility is in A1600 SQ.FT. Building as well as a DUG well for water and a commercial septic system for wastewatertreatment. The facility contains: an 800 square foot wood/styrofoam-walled cooler used to store eggs(the cooler does not meet the hygienic standards for meat products); five (5) upright and chest freezersfor meat product storage; one cutting table; one table for wrapping meat and packaging in vacuumsealed bags; a smokehouse that can smoke four (4) hams and eight( 8) side of bacon; a sausagestuffer and cutting equipment. There currently is not an equipped office for a USDA inspector. Wastedisposal is outside the building. Husband and wife owners, joel and erin geiger, are the only full-timeworkers. Hogs from the farm are taken to lehigh valley meats, a USDA certified and inspectedprocessing plant for slaughter over 14 miles away because there is no closer plant