01/15/2026
Hello everyone. This is a long, heavy hearted post. So, grab your cup of coffee or other beverage of choice and read on...
As some of you know, I made the choice well over a decade ago to give up a life-long career as an industrial technician and move my wife and I away from the big city life for a much better place.
Originally, my goal was to process deer and spend the remainder of the year doing the things that Kathy and I enjoy doing, like fishing, tinkering around the farm, raising livestock, maybe building a muscle car, yada, yada. To my surprise, this thing grew far beyond my imagination, overshadowing all of these things.
Obviously, if we were to grow, we needed a much larger facility. So, in 2021, we purchased a large building in a much better local, which needed a section removed and built much taller to handle beef on the half and the much higher demand that our current facility can offer. We were very excited and, although we knew we had our work cut out for us, we knew it would be a win-win for the surrounding community and ourselves. However, after the supposed "pandemic," everything suddenly changed. Good workers had more work than they could handle, while, so many others became seemingly, should I say, unambitious.
Meanwhile, we were losing potential customers and good help to others because we did not have the capacity in our current facility to meet the demands and we could not sustain that help due to the former. This has left Kathy & I in a perpetual state of obtaining what help we could find, training them enough in the hopes that they could help process in our current facility while I try to get our new building going and, then, either losing them to higher pay or them just losing interest in working all together.
I just don't get how these people are surviving or, worse, how anyone thinks that a country can survive if there are not enough workers to sustain it.
As many business owner's these days, we're perplexed to this bizarre phenomenon.
At any rate, I am considering selling my business. Not because I don't think it will work. This business has been begging for expansion for years now. With the right people and in the new place, no doubt in my mind that this business could make all involved quite comfortable!
I'm 62, some signs of wear & tare, but still have some good life in me. I just do not have the capital it will take to pay what it takes to keep good help here in our current facility and pay help to build the new section of the building, quick enough in order to get this baby rolling. The only other option I see is some good investors, to which I am open to.
I am not looking to part it out, selling it piece by piece. What I am looking for is folks that see the same potential and a community that relies (or should) on locally raised, locally processed meat.
I have most of the material (steel beams, rails, switches, trolleys, new refrigeration) for the hanging cooler and a lot of lumber to frame it all up. There is also a forklift (which has a minor issue that I will fix), a skyjack man lift and, of course, all of the related equipment for slaughter, processing, packaging and cold storage goes.
Also, in order for a smooth transition and to maintain the taste & quality that our customers have grown to love, I will stay onboard for a year to help and teach our trade.
If anyone is interested in buying or investing, please message me and we'll get into the fine details.
Thanks and may the creator of all bless Y'all!
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