Tri-Town Packing Corporation

Tri-Town Packing Corporation, doing business as Adirondack Smoked Meats, operates at 922 County Route 53 in Brasher Falls, St. Lawrence County, New York. The plant holds establishment numbers M4499, P4499 and V4499 and is listed by USDA FSIS for meat processing, meat slaughter, and voluntary meat slaughter and processing, with a grant of inspection date on file of August 5, 2021. FSIS classes the plant as very small and records cattle, hogs, and sheep and lamb slaughtered under inspection, with a reported slaughter volume category of under 1,000 head per year. The plant also reports custom-exempt slaughter, in which animals owned by the customer are processed and packages are marked Not for Sale, and reports retail-exempt sales.

The company website states that Tri-Town Packing opened in 1977 by John and Tom Liberty in Winthrop, Upstate New York, and was founded to meet the needs of local farmers and hunters. Listed services include USDA-inspected slaughtering and processing, custom butchering of beef and hog, venison and wild game processing, cheese smoking, and manufacture of specialty smoked products. The site describes service to farms, families and hunters in the North Country and says the business has served the area for over 45 years.

Under the Adirondack Smoked Meats brand, the plant makes and sells beef jerky, snack sticks, summer sausage, pickled Polish sausage and kielbasa, both at retail and through wholesale distributors. An online store lists individual products with prices, and a wholesale page lists case quantities and UPC codes for distributors. Hours, lead times, custom processing fees and per-head charges are not stated in the material on file, though the website offers downloadable price sheets and online cutting instruction forms.

The plant is listed with FSIS for cattle, hog, and sheep and lamb slaughter under inspection, and also reports custom-exempt slaughter, so a producer can bring animals either for inspected slaughter or for custom work returned marked Not for Sale. FSIS lists the plant as very small, with slaughter volume under 1,000 head per year. The website says the shop has served North Country farmers since 1977 and offers custom cutting of beef and hog. Cutting instructions are required at the time of drop-off and may be submitted through online beef and hog instruction forms or on a printable version brought in person. The beef form covers whole, half and quarter beef, shank and soup bone handling, round, loin, rib and chuck preferences, steak thickness, roast weight and ground beef patty quantities. Price sheets are offered as downloads on the site. Booking procedures, scheduling windows, minimums, hanging weight fees and kill charges are not stated in the material on file.

Tri-Town Packing Corporation 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.

Households can buy the plant's smoked products directly. The website lists an online catalog with beef jerky at $13.49 per half pound in Original and Teriyaki, beef snack sticks at $8.99, original summer sausage at $6.99 for a 10 oz package, jalapeno and cheese summer sausage at $7.49, pickled Polish sausage from $11.99 to $39.99, and a $39.99 sampler pack containing jerky, summer sausage and snack sticks. The site states products can be shipped so customers can get the flavors of the Adirondacks no matter where they live. The plant also reports retail-exempt sales to FSIS, and the beef instruction form allows orders for whole, half or quarter beef. Customer reviews quoted on the site mention cold cuts cut to request and a variety of meats and frozen items. Retail counter hours are not stated 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.