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Arkansas' First 100% Employee-Owned Meat Processor

Delivering exceptional quality, artisan butchery, and transparent service to independent farmers, emerging food brands, and local communities.

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CYPRESS VALLEY MEAT COMPANY

Institutional Buying Program

We partner with schools and institutions to provide budget-friendly, kid-approved local meat blends that simplify cafeteria prep and actively support Arkansas farmers.

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PROCESSING

Cypress Valley Meat Company provides abattoir services where we process, package, and provide additional revenue potential with traditional and value-add offerings.

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Humane Handling & Butchering

With a focus on humane practices, we coordinate logistics with your business, transport teams and harvest your livestock taking every effort to maintain animal well-being through the process.

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Processing
& Certification

Dressing, butchering, and processing livestock into all cuts and specialty products – from single animals to large quantity harvests – can be prepared, USDA-certified, and ready for distribution at the request of our customers.

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Packaging
For Distribution

Products are vacuum-packed to ensure quality, freshness and extended shelf life. With an array of customizable and affordable packaging options, your customers will enjoy their preferred cuts of the quality products you’ve provided.

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LOCATIONS

More Locations
to Serve You

As Cypress Valley Meat Company continues to grow, we maintain our commitment to our customers with convenient locations and flexible scheduling.

Choose Your Location

“The staff at CVMC goes above and beyond to ensure the customer’s needs are met. They are always very accommodating and patient with us, whether accepting numerous phone calls for questions or reviewing special orders!”

Leanna Clark, Flying C Ranch

“In the 10 plus years that I have done business with them, Cypress Valley Meat Plant has never disappointed me. When we take our beef to them the product comes back just like the customers requested. From the incredible customer service down to the box the meat is packaged in you can see the care they put into their processing.”

Lisa Yarbrough

“Rabbit Ridge Farms has trusted Natural State Processing with our poultry processing and packaging needs since we started raising broilers. The quality of our meat is (and preservation of our hard work) is protected with their careful, very hands-on process. Rabbit Ridge Farms is fortunate to have a great company with great people right here in our home county.”

Rabbit Ridge Farms

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SAFETY

Better Product is a Result of Thoughtful Practices

Cypress Valley Meat Company provides abattoir and livestock meat processing services that require the utmost in quality care for both animals and the end consumers of your product.

We work to continually improve our safety protocols for both animals and customers, ensuring consistent results and humane processes with every order.

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Our News

Stay up to date with Cypress Valley Meat Company and our partners.

News

Tales from the Front Lines: Cypress Valley Meat Co.

The ramifications of the Coronavirus pandemic have reached far and wide in the meat and poultry processing industry. The virus has caused many large packing plants to shut down for periods of time, and the resulting closures led to problems in the production side as well.

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Why The Business Of Cheap Beef Could Be Changing

Local, small-scale beef processors have seen a huge spike in demand, as the coronavirus pandemic showed how fragile the meat supply is.

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Small meat processors get little aid as demand grows

The pandemic gave small meat processors a new window of business as big meatpackers had to shut down or scale back operations amid outbreaks.

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As COVID-19 Disrupts the Industrial Meat System, Independent Processors Have a Moment to Shine

Big Meat put most small slaughterhouses out of business. Those left are demonstrating their resilience, but their limited numbers point to the need for improved infrastructure.