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ORAN, Iowa (KWWL) -- As grocery store chains like HyVee put limits on meat purchases and shutdowns at packing plants like Tyson in Waterloo cause hiccups in the supply chain, people are turning to ...

While many large meat processing plants slowed down or temporarily closed due to the spread of COVID-19 among their employees, many small, local meat lockers are seeing a boom in demand for custom ...

The modern meat locker business goes back to 1908, with the first cold storage facility on record located in Chico, Calif. and run by the Eames family. Since that time, meat locker operators have ...

“I might have to wait three years to get a beef butchered,” said Russell, who has a commercial hog operation near Prairieburg in northeast Linn County. He also sells about 10 head of beef a year ...

Some of the pork at Shannon McCord's Ideal Market in Superior, Nebraska, didn't travel far to get from farm to fridge."I plan on having a label put on the pork that I'm doing and have it designed and ...

The spotlight returned to small-town meat lockers — a boon for main streets, big box-weary consumers and local livestock producers — this past week after a fire destroyed a butcher shop in ...

FULLERTON, Neb. (KOLN) - There’s a growing demand for the River’s Edge Meat Locker in Fullerton, with customers traveling from as far as Ogallala and Osmond to purchase meat. Owner Brad Gleason ...