Meat & Fisheries Processing Laboratory

Meat & Fisheries Processing Laboratory operates on the campus of the State University of New York at Cobleskill, at 114 Rockland Lane in Cobleskill, Schoharie County, New York. It holds federal establishment numbers M4266, P4266 and V4266, with a grant of inspection dated October 26, 2020. FSIS lists its activities as meat slaughter, meat processing and poultry processing, and classes the plant as Very Small.

The establishment reports slaughtering cattle, hogs, and sheep and lamb under federal inspection. Its FSIS slaughter volume category is 1.0, meaning under 1,000 head per year. The plant also reports custom-exempt slaughter, in which animals owned by the customer are processed and the packages are marked Not for Sale.

No website is on file for this establishment. Pages published by SUNY Cobleskill describe the facility's purpose as providing students a real world environment for processing meat under the supervision of laboratory staff. A secondary directory listing states that the lab offers slaughter and processing services for area farms. Beyond the federal record and those brief descriptions, details such as hours, booking procedures, fees, cut and wrap options, and retail sales are not yet on file.

The plant reports cattle, hog, and sheep and lamb slaughter under federal inspection, plus custom-exempt slaughter of animals the customer already owns, with resulting packages marked Not for Sale. Reported volume is under 1,000 head per year, and FSIS classes the establishment as Very Small, so capacity is limited. A secondary directory listing states the lab offers slaughter and processing services for farms in the area. Scheduling, lead times, minimums, drop-off procedures, kill fees, and cut and wrap charges are not stated in the sources on file, and the facility operates as a teaching laboratory within SUNY Cobleskill, so farmers should contact the listed phone number, (518) 255-5323, to ask what work is accepted as listed.

Meat & Fisheries Processing Laboratory 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.