Booth Creek Wagyu

Booth Creek Wagyu, listed with FSIS as establishment M47665 and doing business as GTB Custom Meats and Meatworks of Kansas, operates at 315 S. Main St. in Riley, Kansas, in Riley County. The federal record lists meat slaughter and meat processing activities, cattle as the species slaughtered under inspection, and a grant of inspection dated July 20, 2022. FSIS classifies the plant as very small and places its slaughter volume in the lowest category, under 1,000 head per year. The plant also reports custom-exempt slaughter, in which animals owned by the customer are processed and packaged marked Not for Sale, and reports retail-exempt sales.

The company website describes Booth Creek as a vertically integrated Wagyu beef company started in 2020 by founder Dave Dreiling after his first Wagyu auction. The site states that Booth Creek owns the ranch north of Manhattan, Kansas, a feeding program at Wagyu Feeders Inc., the processing plant known as Meatworks of Kansas, retail locations, and a distribution center, with all facilities within about a 30 mile radius. The site gives distances of 25 miles from ranch to processing center and 20 miles from processing to distribution center, and 5,000 acres of ranch land. It describes butchers who work only on Wagyu and who were trained by a fourth generation Wagyu butcher, and it refers to Meatworks of Kansas as a provider of custom Wagyu beef processing and purveying services.

The website is built around direct sales of the company's own Wagyu beef rather than around drop-off processing for outside livestock owners. Specific custom processing terms such as booking windows, kill day schedules, minimums, hanging weight pricing, and cut and wrap fees are not stated in the material on file. Buyers and producers should contact the plant directly at (785) 485-2595 to confirm current services.

The federal record shows cattle slaughter under inspection plus custom-exempt slaughter, meaning the plant reports processing animals owned by the customer with packages marked Not for Sale. FSIS lists the operation as very small with slaughter volume under 1,000 head per year, and the website describes butchers who specialize only in Wagyu and a plant, Meatworks of Kansas, that is part of the company's own vertically integrated supply chain from ranch to feedlot to processing to retail. Booking procedures, lead times, minimums, kill day schedules, hanging weight pricing, and cut and wrap fees are not stated in the sources on file. Producers should call (785) 485-2595 to ask whether outside livestock are taken and on what terms.

Booth Creek Wagyu reports custom-exempt slaughter 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.

The company sells its own Wagyu beef directly through an online store, with individual cuts such as ribeye, K.C. strip, filet mignon, Denver, flat iron, sirloin, skirt, flank, and coulotte, along with ground beef, burger patties, hot dogs, summer sausage, snack sticks, and jerky. Curated boxes and grill bundles are listed, including a Backyard Wagyu Starter Box at $74.00, The Summer Sausage Box at $80.00, and the Weeknight Essentials Box at $175.00, with larger boxes listed up to $510.00. The site states that both fresh and frozen products are offered and that mixed orders ship frozen, that shipping reaches customers in the lower 48 states, and that checkout includes a Ship to Multiple Addresses option. For orders of twenty boxes or more the site directs buyers to call (785) 775-2293. The site says the company has opened four retail locations in Kansas; specific store addresses and hours are not in the material on file.

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.