Caviness Beef Packers, Ltd.

Caviness Beef Packers, Ltd., doing business as Caviness Packing Company, operates a cattle slaughter and meat processing plant at 3255 U.S. Highway 60 in Hereford, Deaf Smith County, Texas. The plant holds establishment number M675 and is listed by FSIS under Meat Slaughter and Meat Processing activities, with cattle as the species slaughtered under inspection. FSIS classifies the establishment as large and places it in slaughter volume category 4.0. The grant of inspection date on file is June 25, 2021. No custom-exempt activity is reported to FSIS.

The company website describes Caviness as a beef packer and further processor selling through foodservice, retail, and further processing channels, nationally and internationally. It states the business has been family owned and operated for more than 60 years, dating to 1962, and is currently led by second and third generation family members. The Hereford location is described as handling beef harvest, fabrication, rendering, and hides processing, with the harvest facility completed in July 2005 about five miles southwest of Hereford on the north side of Highway 60, and roughly 130,000 square feet of additions finished in 2020 that the site says allowed a second shift. A separate Amarillo location, commissioned in October 2022 at 8501 FM 1541, produces fresh and frozen ground beef and beef patties for retail, foodservice, and institutional customers.

Head counts differ across the company's own pages: the home and about pages state 2,900 head processed each day, while a search snippet of the contact page states 1,800 head per day. Contact numbers also vary between the federal record and the website. FSIS lists (806) 357-2339, while the website lists a main line of 806.357.2443, a cattle line of 806.357.2333, and 806.357.2333 for the Hereford plant. Beyond these sources, further details are not on file.

The website states that Caviness works closely with area ranchers and dairy operators on live cattle marketing and lists a cattle procurement line at 806.357.2333. It describes continual upgrades to harvest and fabrication intended to give suppliers higher carcass yields and dollar value. This is a commodity packing operation, not a custom-exempt shop: FSIS reports no custom-exempt activity for M675, and the sources do not mention custom kill, cut and wrap for individual owners, booking windows, minimums, or fees. Producers interested in selling cattle would contact the cattle procurement line directly.

Caviness Beef Packers, Ltd. 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 do not describe a retail counter, halves or quarters, freezer bundles, online ordering, delivery, or shipping to households. Products are marketed to foodservice, retail, and further processing customers, and the website notes that detailed product lists and price quotes are provided once a business relationship is established. Household buyers would most likely encounter Caviness beef under its brand names at retail rather than by buying from the plant.

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.