5 days ago · Sustainable Beef - North Platte NE: This plant is being built with support from Walmart and could be processing cattle in 2025. It's expected to process 1,500 head of cattle per day at full capacity. Producer Owned Beef - Amarillo TX: This $670 million plant is being built by a group of cattle feeders near Amarillo, Texas.

Jul 6, 2020 · In light of the recent increase in retail beef prices and decrease in cattle prices, many cattle producers have expressed interest in starting up small beef processing facilities that do not undercut the rancher and provide consistent prices for consumers.

Aug 10, 2022 · Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has announced that a $670 million state-of-the-art beef processing facility is going to be built in Amarillo in 2023. The new facility, Producer Owned …

Aug 17, 2024 · Livestock producers of cattle, hogs, sheep and goats selling meat must have animals harvested and meat packaged and labeled at a USDA-inspected livestock processing facility, in addition to following other regulatory requirements.

Aug 15, 2023 · So some ranchers and cattle feeders are organizing to build their own processing plants. Harvest Public Media's Elizabeth Rembert reports on a rancher-led meatpacking project in Nebraska.

Jan 25, 2024 · The meatpacking industry is highly concentrated, with large plants and few firms. Larger plants reduce processing costs and wholesale meat prices, but having fewer firms allows packers to reduce prices paid for livestock. Those tradeoffs—efficiency versus market power—have reemerged in policy debates.

Nov 3, 2021 · Cow and bull slaughter for 2021 continues outpacing last year’s totals, and cow processing plants are operating at higher capacity utilization levels than fed cattle plants. Through October, U.S. cow slaughter was 5.03 million head, or 5.2% higher than last year.

Learn more about how cattle are handled in Cargill’s beef processing plants in a NAMI video filmed at our Fort Morgan, Colorado, beef processing facility. In the U.S., Cargill supports the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) certification …

Aug 30, 2023 · A massive $670 million beef production plant tied to a stampede of economic benefits in the Texas Panhandle, and expected to be the nation's only facility of its kind owned by cattle producers, is closer to becoming a reality with a construction start on the horizon.

Aug 10, 2022 · Governor Greg Abbott today announced Producer Owned Beef, LLC (“POB”) will create a new beef processing plant in Amarillo. The plant will harvest 3,000 cattle per day and sell beef and beef byproducts both in and out of Texas.