Elkhorn Valley Packing LLC

Elkhorn Valley Packing LLC, doing business as L. Grant & Sons LLC, operates a beef slaughter and processing plant at 1509 East 16th Street in Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas. The establishment holds USDA FSIS establishment number M19549A, with a grant of inspection dated May 9, 2022, and is listed under both Meat Slaughter and Meat Processing activities. FSIS classifies the plant as small and records cattle as the only species slaughtered under inspection. The plant reports kosher slaughter to FSIS. Its FSIS slaughter volume category is 3.0, above the smallest tier of under 1,000 head per year. No custom-exempt activity is reported to FSIS.

according to the company website, Lynn Grant founded L. Grant and Sons, Inc. in 1992 as a trading and distribution business in Dodge, Nebraska, and the company became a packing facility in 1996 under the Elkhorn Valley Packing name. The website states a slaughter facility in Wellington, Kansas was purchased about four years later, followed by a processing facility in Harper, Kansas. The business is described as still owned and operated by the Grant family, shipping product coast to coast.

The website describes Elkhorn Valley Packing as a full line boxed beef processing plant offering boxed beef, variety meats, and specialty or customized cuts, along with branded programs called Valley Pride Angus and EVP Premier Choice Angus. It also states the company was the first meat packing plant recognized through the Safety and Health Achievement Recognition Program (SHARP). The company lists its main contact address as 101 Central Ave., Harper, Kansas, with phone 620-896-2300, while FSIS lists the Wellington plant phone as (620) 326-3443, the same number the website gives for cattle procurement. Details about retail sales, hours, or services to individual farm customers are not on file.

The plant is listed with FSIS for cattle slaughter and reports no custom-exempt activity, so it is not recorded as a custom kill operation for individual farm animals. The website lists a cattle procurement contact, Will Wright, at office 620-326-3443 and cell 620-399-3446, which suggests the company buys cattle, though terms, grids, booking, and delivery requirements are not stated in the sources. Farmers should contact the plant directly to confirm what it accepts, as listed.

Elkhorn Valley Packing 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 a wholesale boxed beef operation serving business customers coast to coast. No retail counter, halves or quarters, freezer bundles, online ordering, delivery, or shipping to households is stated in the federal record or on the website.

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.