The only thing certain for smaller meat and poultry processors is uncertainty.
As noted by Drs. Marty Matlock of the University of Arkansas and Darrell Peel of Oklahoma State University in a Flower Hill Institute online roundtable, processors are being buffeted by increasing equipment and construction costs, workforce uncertainty, extremely tight cattle supplies, and other factors.
On an early Sunday morning in mid-June, members of several area Tribes, along with leaders of The Nature Conservancy (TNC), World Wildlife Fund and other organizations gathered around the Intertribal Buffalo Council’s (ITBC) mobile processing trailer at a TNC ranch south of Rapid City, SD to participate in the cultural harvest of a buffalo bull that had been felled by a sharpshooter in the pasture minutes earlier.
