Verde Farms opens own beef processing facility in US

Grass-fed and free-range beef provider Verde Farms has further expanded its capabilities by opening its own processing facility in Mullica Hill, New Jersey.

The new facility will enable the company to process its premium products in-house,as well as provide advanced processing services to a select speciality meat customers.

Verde Farms CEO Dana Ehrlich said: “Opening our own processing facility emphasises our foundational commitment to offer the highest-quality products, while maintaining transparency and consistently rapid response to our customers’ needs.

“In addition to now owning a significant portion of our own product processing, we’re happy to offer the benefits of our state-of-the-art processing facility to other speciality meat companies who normally wouldn’t meet the high daily volume requirements typical of larger, modern facilities.”

The company claims that its new facility is USDA Organic and level 2 SQF-certified. It will be used to process frozen and fresh grass-fed beef into a variety of vacuum-packed products.

Verde noted that its new facility is co-located at Mullica Hill Cold Storage, which provides USDA ID services and is within proximity of Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey ports.

Mullica Hill Group Companies founder and president Fred Sorbello said: “Verde Farms has been a valued customer for over 12 years, and I’ve been a strong supporter of all the company has stood for since the very beginning.

“Having been with them since their inception, offering space for Verde to build out its processing capability at Mullica Hill was a natural and logical extension of the relationship and we look forward to the company’s continued success.”