Sailer's Food Market and Meat Processing

Sailer's Food Market and Meat Processing operates at 600 W. Winter Ave. in Elmwood, Wisconsin, in Pierce County. The plant holds federal establishment numbers M157, P158 and V157, with a grant of inspection date on file of July 22, 2021. FSIS lists its activities as meat processing, meat slaughter, poultry processing, voluntary processing of meat and voluntary slaughter of meat, and classifies the establishment as small.

Species slaughtered under inspection, as reported to FSIS, are cattle, hogs, sheep and lamb, and bison. The establishment also reports custom-exempt slaughter, meaning it processes animals owned by the customer with packages marked Not for Sale, and it reports retail-exempt sales. Its FSIS slaughter volume category is 2.0, one step above the smallest band of under 1,000 head per year.

The website on file is a Facebook page, and no website text was available for this record. A secondary directory listing states the business has served Elmwood and surrounding communities since 1923 and offers a full line of groceries. Details beyond the federal record, including cut and wrap options, booking lead times, fees, hours and retail inventory, are not yet on file.

The establishment reports slaughter of cattle, hogs, sheep and lamb, and bison under federal inspection, so animals processed here can yield product eligible for resale, as listed. It also reports custom-exempt slaughter, in which the customer owns the animal and the packages are marked Not for Sale, an option used by farmers filling freezer beef and pork orders for themselves or for buyers who purchase the live animal. FSIS places the plant in slaughter volume category 2.0 and size class small. Booking procedures, scheduling lead times, kill day rotation, hanging weight charges and cut and wrap fees are not stated in the sources on file. Farmers should call (715) 639-2191 to confirm species accepted, current availability and pricing.

Sailer's Food Market and Meat Processing 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.

The business operates as a food market as well as a processing plant, and it reports retail-exempt sales to FSIS. A secondary directory listing describes a full line of groceries served to Elmwood and the surrounding area. Specific retail products, cuts, bundles, halves and quarters, delivery, shipping or online ordering are not stated in the sources on file. Households should contact the market directly at (715) 639-2191 to ask what is available at the counter.

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.