Beef Packers News Today

The American beef cattle herd is as small as it has been since the 1950s, leaving producers to collect booming sales checks and packers to foot the bill for a diminishing supply of livestock.

There are hardly any independent butchers left in the region. But these six institutions, most of them more than 50 years old, offer high-quality meat with service you’re not going to find at the big-box stores.