Creekstone Farms Premium Beef LLC

Creekstone Farms Premium Beef LLC operates at 604 Goff Industrial Park Road in Arkansas City, Cowley County, Kansas, under FSIS establishment number M27. The federal record lists the plant for meat slaughter and meat processing, with cattle as the species slaughtered under inspection, a size class of large, and a slaughter volume category of 4.0. The grant of inspection date on file is February 26, 2021. The establishment reports halal slaughter to FSIS. No custom-exempt activity is reported.

The company website describes a single Kansas processing plant that handles beef from slaughter through fabrication and packaging, with an on-site case-ready facility and an automated distribution center. The site states the plant was designed with input from animal handling authority Dr. Temple Grandin and runs a single production shift with slower line speeds. Product lines named include Creekstone Farms Premium Black Angus Beef, Master Chef Black Angus, Natural Black Angus, Irodori American Wagyu, and All-Natural Heritage Duroc Pork raised by producers in Iowa. The site says USDA-recognized G-schedule programs, including a third-party USDA-verified G-87 certified program, provide verification of its quality claims, and that cattle in the Natural Black Angus program are raised with Certified Humane animal handling practices.

Sales are directed to retail, foodservice, and international channels through sales representatives and distributors. The website does not describe a retail store, custom or private slaughter for individual livestock owners, halves or quarters, or direct-to-consumer ordering. Buyers with those needs should contact the plant directly, since details beyond what is listed here are not on file.

The federal record reports no custom-exempt activity at this establishment, so it is not listed as a plant that returns meat to an individual owner for personal use. The website describes cattle sourced through relationships with family ranchers who meet the company's Black Angus genetic specifications, with all animals born and raised in the United States, and states that cattle are hand selected against strict genetic guidelines. Terms of sale, buying stations, scheduling, and any producer program requirements are not stated in the sources on file, and a rancher interested in supplying cattle would need to contact the plant directly.

Creekstone Farms Premium Beef LLC 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.

The sources describe sales through retail grocers, butcher shops, foodservice operators, and international customers rather than direct household sales. No on-site retail counter, halves or quarters, freezer bundles, shipping, or online consumer ordering is mentioned in the material on file. Households are most likely to encounter Creekstone Farms products in a retailer's meat case, including case-ready portion cut beef, ground beef in patties, bricks, pucks, and 5 and 10 pound chubs, and Heritage Duroc pork cuts.

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.