Praire Meats, LLC

Praire Meats, LLC, doing business as Brush Locker, is a USDA-inspected meat plant at 29429 CR "R" in Brush, Morgan County, Colorado. The establishment holds FSIS establishment numbers M6463 and V6463, with a grant of inspection on file dated February 9, 2015. FSIS lists the plant under Meat Processing, Meat Slaughter, Voluntary Processing - Meat, and Voluntary Slaughter - Meat, and classes it as Very Small.

The species reported to FSIS as slaughtered under inspection is hogs. The plant also reports custom-exempt processing, the category used for animals owned by a farmer or household and returned to that owner rather than sold. Its FSIS slaughter volume category is 3.0, above the smallest tier of under 1,000 head per year. The listed phone number is (970) 380-5153.

No website is on file for this establishment, and details beyond the federal record are not yet on file. Secondary directory listings for a Prairie Meats in Brush describe slaughter and processing services for area farms and ranchers, and one listing shows an address at 128 S Clayton St rather than the county road address in the FSIS directory. Hours, pricing, booking practices, retail sales, and cut and wrap options are not documented in the sources reviewed here.

The federal record shows a Very Small plant with both slaughter and processing activities, with hogs reported as the species slaughtered under inspection, plus custom-exempt processing for owner-returned meat. Its slaughter volume category of 3.0 places it above the smallest reported tier. Booking windows, scheduling lead times, kill day availability, minimums, per-head fees, and cut and wrap details are not stated in the sources on file. Farmers should contact the plant at (970) 380-5153 to confirm what species and dates it handles, since only hog slaughter appears in the FSIS record.

Praire Meats, LLC reports custom-exempt processing to FSIS, which means it can process an animal a customer already owns (a whole, half, or share bought before slaughter) and return it in packages marked Not for Sale. Most small farms have one or two plants they book with, and the plant's calendar decides the delivery date.