Discover What Happens Inside a Beef Processing Plant — Most People Never See This

The part of the beef industry everyone argues about is the part almost no one has actually seen.

This week on Discover Ag, Natalie and Tara follow cattle's journey from a grassy pasture at R.A.  Brown Ranch to the processing floor at American Butchery.

Get answers to your most pressing questions: What happens before beef reaches my plate? How are cattle raised? Why do feedyards exist? What do cattle eat? How do steaks and ground beef make it to the grocery store?

What We Discovered This Week 🤠

🪩 Every stage of beef production

🪩 How smaller plants differ from the Big Four packers

🪩 The journey from "kill room to chill room"

🪩 Why fly control matters more than you'd think

🪩 How quality standards are maintained

CHAPTERS:

(00:00) Intro

(02:07) Inside a Cow-Calf Operation