Iowa Premium, LLC

Iowa Premium, LLC, doing business as National Beef Packing Co. LLC, operates a USDA-inspected beef plant at 3337 L Avenue in Tama, Tama County, Iowa. The establishment holds numbers M8 and V8 and is listed with FSIS for meat slaughter, meat processing, and export certification, with a grant of inspection date on file of March 17, 2020. Cattle are the only species reported slaughtered under inspection. FSIS classifies the plant in its largest size class, with a slaughter volume category of 4.0, and the plant reports halal slaughter.

The company website describes the Iowa Premium brand as corn and forage fed Black Angus beef sourced from family farms in Iowa and neighboring states, with a stated specialty in USDA certified Choice beef and a full line of hand-trimmed cuts. Search snippets from National Beef describe the Tama facility as a regional beef packing plant in operation since 1971 that handles USDA Prime and USDA Choice grade beef. The FSIS grant date of 2020 reflects the federal record for the current establishment listing rather than the site history described by the company.

No custom-exempt activity is reported to FSIS, and the website does not describe custom slaughter for individual farmers, a retail counter, or direct sales of halves and quarters. The site is primarily brand, recipe, and nutrition information. Details beyond the federal record and this brand material are not yet on file.

The website presents Iowa Premium as a branded beef program with recipes, nutrition information, and a family of brands, and it points consumers to in-store purchases rather than to a plant retail counter. No online ordering, shipping, delivery, bundles, or sales of halves and quarters are described in the sources.

If you are buying a half or quarter animal, the plant is where the animal is processed; the farm sells you the animal. Read how to buy a half cow for the sequence and the math.