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Small-scale processing is on the rise, but ranchers still need buy-in from buyers
Susan Shain
High Country News
via Montana Free Press
This story also appeared in High Country News
In a squat 1,100-square-foot building on the outskirts of Helena lies a pile of enormous tongues. They are thick and leaden, stacked on a steel table like fish out of water. The bovines from which they came hulk nearby, cold carcasses hanging from cold hooks. Bearded men, their white coats covered in blood, rhythmically chop livers, punctuating the hum of industrial refrigeration.
This small meat-processing facility, which a group of ranchers started under the name Old Salt Co-op, is one of many...
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