Tyson Fresh Meats, Inc.

Tyson Fresh Meats, Inc. operates a hog slaughter and pork processing plant at 1009 Richland Street in Storm Lake, Buena Vista County, Iowa. The federal record lists the establishment under numbers M244 and V244, with doing-business-as names IBP, Inc. and Tyson Foods, Inc. FSIS activities on file are meat slaughter, meat processing, and export certification, and the grant of inspection date on file is September 11, 2020.

FSIS classifies the plant in its largest size class, and its reported slaughter volume category is 4.0, the high end of the agency's scale for annual head counts. Hogs are the only species reported slaughtered under inspection. No custom-exempt activity is reported, meaning the federal record does not show the plant processing animals owned by individual farmers or households for their own use.

The website on file is a Facebook page for the Storm Lake pork plant, and no website text was available for this record. Secondary directory listings describe the operation as meat processing and food products wholesale, and one page identifies it as the official page for the Storm Lake, Iowa Tyson Fresh Meats pork plant. Details beyond the federal record, including product lines, buyer contacts, and hours, are not yet on file. Note that the federal record gives the street as Richland Street while several directory listings give Richland Drive.

The federal record shows hogs as the only species slaughtered under inspection at this establishment, and no custom-exempt activity is reported, so the plant is not listed as doing custom processing where a producer retains ownership of the meat. FSIS classifies it as a large plant with a slaughter volume category of 4.0. Procurement terms, hog buying programs, scheduling, and any minimums are not stated in the sources on file. Producers would need to contact the plant at (712) 749-5238 to learn how it sources animals.

Tyson Fresh Meats, Inc. 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.

Nothing in the sources indicates a retail counter, freezer bundles, halves or quarters, online ordering, or shipping to households. Secondary directory listings describe the business as meat processing and food products wholesale. Household buyers are more likely to encounter this plant's pork through retail and foodservice channels than by buying on site.

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.