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Small meat lockers see surge in demand while farmers search for processing alternatives

05/13/20 6:25 AM By Hannah Pagel
KEYWORDS American Association of Meat Processors covid-19 Iowa Ag Dept. local food local meat lockers meat meat processing pork
While many large meat processing plants slowed down or temporarily closed due to the spread of COVID-19 among their employees, many small, local meat lockers are seeing a boom in demand for custom butchering.
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Hannah Pagel
Associate Editor

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