The Pointside Meat Shop is here to serve local meats, drinks and treats. Santa Cruz locals Kevin and Brian Dueck grew up on the award-winning butcher shop, Freedom Meat Lockers. The brothers have ...

KAYLOR, S.D. — Kenny Konrad has been in the meat locker business since 1961, and he has never seen anything like what's going on now. “We’re very busy, let’s put it that way,” Konrad, owner of the ...

Conger, Minnesota — This tiny farm town near the Iowa border has lost the bank, café and hardware store through the years. The bar remains, for obvious reasons, as does the local meat locker. "We've ...

While many large meat processing plants slowed down or temporarily closed due to the spread of COVID-19 among their employees, many small, local meat lockers are seeing a boom in demand for custom ...

“I might have to wait three years to get a beef butchered,” said Russell, who has a commercial hog operation near Prairieburg in northeast Linn County. He also sells about 10 head of beef a year ...