These equipment are being shipped to us. - Meat processing business dealing with pork meat, sow meat, and beef meat. We only Dry Aged the best USDA Prime Steaks. This guidance document helps owners and managers of new or existing red meat or poultry mobile slaughter units to come under Federal inspection and continue operations in accordance with FSIS regulations. Join us for public meetings or respond to comment requests. Showing results from SMERGERS worldwide. The type of animal determines the meat rail system height of the trailer and more Brothers Body and Equipment has built on-farm poultry processing trailers for New England producers The company has designs for large animal facilities as well We establish what kind of equipment you want the volume you want to do and the equipment needed for the process you want to use says company representative Tim Horn Our large breed 53-ft semi trailer runs from $100 000 to $150 000 depending on options Another company that has built a mobile slaughter unit is Flat River Corp General manager Jerry Eisenmenger says I think they have a lot of potential for the small producer who happens to live in an area where local locker plants are no longer available Contact: FARM SHOW Followup TriVan Truck Body 1385 W Smith Rd Ferndale Wash 98248 ph 360 380-0773; toll free 866 874-8261; blodder@trivan com; www trivan com ; or Brothers Body and Equipment LLC P O Box 926 Galion Ohio 44833 ph 419 462-1975; info@BrothersBAndE com; www brothersbande com ; or Featherlite Trailers P O Box 320 Cresco Iowa 52136 ph 563 547-6000; toll free 800 800-1230; communications@fthr com; www fthr com ; or Flat River Corp P O Box 1615 Columbus Neb 68602 ph 402 562-6888; toll free 800 310-8772; flatriv@frontiernet net; www flatrivercorp com, To read the rest of this story, download this issue below or click. var months=new Array(13); Because it makes meat even more tender and adds a distinct roasted, nutty flavor. - Supplies to 120+ customers. The conditions that the 20-C farmer and the mobile unit operator must meet are listed in the NYSDAM FSI document, Mobile Retail Meat Processing Unit Protocol. Favorite sausage? Renewable Harvest provides free consulting to farmers and communities interested in building and operating MSUs. The Methow Conservancy just purchased a USDA-approved, modular slaughter unit and will be leasing it to Double S Meats for the next 5 years. Leasing process and cost: I: In order to lease the mobile processing unit, the producer has to participate and pass the 5 module certification program. months[6]="June"; months[2]="February"; are extra. Coming up on September 9, FSIS Office of Outreach, Employee Education and Training will host an informational session on mobile slaughter units in Carson City, Nevada. months[8]="August"; The purchase terms are 50 percent down at the time of the order, with the balance on completion. Owner Financing: no. Contact: Chris Hughes, (800) 962-4263, wildgame[at]brokenarrowranch.com, Capacity per day: 6-7 beef, 20-25 sheep or hogs, Owned by the Community Agricultural Development Center; operated byS & K Processing, a USDA-inspectedcut and wrap facility, Contact: Al Kowitz, Community Agricultural Development Center, akowitz[at]communityagecenter.org, Capacity per day: 8-10 head beef (or 40 sheep or 20 pigs), Owned by Island Grown Farmers Cooperative (IGFC), Contact: Jim Wieringa, IGFC, (360) 766-4273, manager[at]igfcmeats.com, Inspection: USDA-inspected, Certified Organic by Washington State Department of Agriculture, Capacity per day: 10 animal units (AU); 1 beef = 1 AU, 1 hog = 0.6 AU, 1 sheep/goat = 0.44 AU, Owned by the Pierce County Conservation District, Contact: Perry Schermerhorn, PSMPC, (254) 225-2226, psmpc[at]pugetsoundmeat.org. Shame on VT for selling this after spending all that money on it. All animals are treated with the same respect we would give our own livestock. Copied the Whizzbang models by Herrick Kimball modified them a bit and made them all out of aluminum. - We have seen a growth in the revenue as our business had just started it's operations last year and we were establishing our position in the market. Order by Phone 800-834-9665, SUBSCRIBE Not only does the mobile unit use less waterunder 40 gallons per head slaughtered, compared to 150 - 450 gallons at conventional plants, before boxingbut runoff can be routed to the feedlot pond via a simple treatment system, a terraced filter and helpful aquatic plants. Now, local ranchers are able to efficiently access their local markets. A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States. The site is secure. For sale: Slaughterhouse and processing plant for turkeys and chickens with a capacity of 26,000 tons/year. from dealers & private sellers. Contact: Greg Finstad, University of Alaska Reindeer Research Program, (907) 474-6055, glfinstad[at]alaska.edu, Capacity per day: 5 beef or 10 hogs or 20 lambs and goats, Owned and managed by the Central Coast Agriculture Cooperative; operated by J&R Meats, a USDA-inspectedcut and wrap facility, Built byNebraska Environmental Action Coalition(NEAC), owned by Socially Responsible Agricultural Projects, Operated by Mike Callicrate, Ranch Foods Direct, Colorado Springs, CO. Outdoors: 31F/7F Cloudy Box 1029 Small Farm Sustainability 2625 N. Loop Dr., Suite 2430 Ames, IA 50010. To bad it failed. Cash Flow: Unless a mobile slaughter unit is USDA-inspected (as of this writing, there are no inspected mobile slaughter units in Oregon), it cannot be used to. (Note that as more and more poultry MPUs come on line around the country, not all will be listed here.). It was a good idea but not an affordable,in my opinion, one. We understand the level of confidentiality required in strategic transactions and we strive to provide a safe and secure experience for our members. Dam that is a crime against the tax payers. In 2009 Pierce Conservation District purchased a USDA-capable mobile slaughter unit to assist the farmers of the South Puget Sound region. Contact|Terms, Where To Buy A Mobile Slaughterhouse LIVESTOCK Beef If youre looking to get into the mobile butchering business there are several custom trailer manufacturers who can build you one including TriVan Truck Body Brothers Body and Equipment Featherlite and others Since building their first one in 2004 TriVan has built a number of other mobile processing plants for farmers Weve built units that range from 36 ft to 53 ft long says Bob Lodder TriVan Truck Body Weve done poultry processing trailers and large animal units Right now we are working on projects as diverse as fish processing and cheese making TriVans first trailer was for a group of farmers in the San Juan Islands in Washington state featured in Vol 27 No 5 TriVan is now completing one thats non-mobile The 53-ft by 10-ft by 14-ft high enclosure is a turnkey slaughter and processing facility for a farm in northern British Columbia Weve been getting more calls on mobile slaughter units as people discover theyre more economical and can produce higher quality meat says Lodder Meat quality suffers when you transport animals long distances Lodder says a basic 36-ft slaughter facility can process 10 head of beef 24 head of cattle or 40 head of sheep per day with two butchers on hand The on-board cooler will hold about 6 000 lbs of carcasses A single butcher can operate the facility but at lower capacity Fully equipped with a generator and all equipment needed the mobile slaughterhouse will cost around $175 000 While the unit is designed for slaughter processing the carcass into cuts would need to be done at a second location A processing facility can be included in a larger unit The strength of our company is we are a custom builder says Lodder We can add storage under the trailer extended beams for hanging animals out the back and chutes to remove the offal TriVan custom trailers can take from 14 to 20 weeks from order to delivery depending on specifications Finished slaughter facilities meet all USDA inspection and licensing requirements Lodder suggests having basic needs in mind when talking to a manufacturer such as TriVan The big questions are capacity and type of animal he says What kind of maneuverability do you need to get the trailer to the farms? - Operates at 70% capacity and the business can be operated at full capacity with more workers. - The transaction includes the business entity, all the machinery and the entire built-up area which will be transferred to the prospective buyer. Typically, clients are retailers and wholesalers. Due to this, they might not be able to effectively market their animals and/or meat products to buyers in either conventional or in local food movement channels. If you point your iPodTouch, iPad or phone with a camera and appropriate software on it at that it should scan the QR Code and take you to the web page for the auction. - This transaction includes the sale of building of the slaughterhouse, slaughterhouse plot, cool houses, equipment of processing, packing machines, and licenses but the farm is not included in this sale. - New owner will receive the grant. - We deal in B2B transactions and currently have around 100 clients. (USD 6.5 million) For Fall please schedule the Mobile Butcher Trailer very early. The approximate vehicle weight is 25,000 pounds. Friesla's Mobile Meat Harvest Unit is a 36 foot long self-contained trailer used for meat processing on your farm or ranch. FSIS invites the food safety community to participate in establishing standards for our food safety policies and services. Only certified users will be able to process their livestock on the MPU. SITEMAP, 2023 FARM SHOW Magazine - All Rights Reserved. - The valuation is high because we have an opportunity to rent a refrigerator with swine and beef slaughter, with this structure we will slaughter 220 pigs a day and 120 beef a day and produce over 100,000 kilogram of sausages. The project is designed as an economic development effort to provide stability to an otherwise unmanaged and a currently non-profitable industry. Business that exports meat products to 3 countries and has 20 regular clients, seeks investment.