Eagle Grove Cooperative

Eagle Grove Cooperative, establishment M51340+V51340, operates at 3183 IA-17 in Eagle Grove, Wright County, Iowa. The federal record lists the establishment as doing business under several names, including Prestage Farms, Prestage Farms of Iowa, Prestage Foods, Prestage Foods of Iowa, Wholestone Farms, and Wholestone Prestage. FSIS lists its activities as meat slaughter, meat processing, meat identification, and export certification. The species slaughtered under inspection is hogs. The grant of inspection date on file is January 27, 2020.

FSIS classifies the establishment in its large size class, and its slaughter volume category is 4.0 on a scale where category 1 is under 1,000 head per year. No custom-exempt activity is reported to FSIS, which means the plant is not recorded as processing animals for return to their owners under a custom exemption. Export certification on the federal record indicates the plant is eligible to prepare product for foreign markets, subject to the requirements of the receiving countries.

The website on file for this record, goldeaglecoop.com, belongs to Gold-Eagle Cooperative, a farm supply cooperative headquartered in Eagle Grove that describes grain, agronomy, energy, and feed departments across 20 locations in Iowa and southern Minnesota, with a first legacy cooperative formed in 1908. That site does not describe meat slaughter, meat processing, retail meat sales, or custom butchering, so it should not be read as a description of this plant's operations. Details about this establishment beyond the federal record are not yet on file.

The federal record reports hog slaughter at large-plant scale, with a slaughter volume category of 4.0, and no custom-exempt activity. A producer looking for custom kill and cut for personal use, or for small-lot service, would not find that reflected in the federal record here. Booking procedures, lot size minimums, live animal receiving hours, marketing agreements, and any fees are not stated in the sources on file. Producers should contact the plant at (515) 448-2700 to confirm whether it takes outside hogs and on what terms, as listed.

Eagle Grove Cooperative operates under a federal grant of inspection, so product from this plant can be sold anywhere in the United States, which matters if you sell online or across a state line. FSIS does not list a custom-exempt activity for this plant.