Agriculture

Meat processing facility in Tenino moves forward

New center will help fill a long-standing gap for area ranchers.

Eric Klein of Colvin Ranch and Aslan Meade, director of Strategic Alliances for the Thurston County Economic Development Council, talk about a proposed meat processing facility that will be built at the Tenino Agricultural Innovation Park. (Photo by Nathan Whalen)

Work will begin soon on a meat processing facility that will help ranchers in Southwest Washington.

Officials hope the new facility will open in late 2027 and be able to process around 15 head of cattle per day. That new facility will operate out of a new building that will be constructed at the Tenino Ag Innovation Center.

The project, which will be 20,000 square feet located on an 8-acre site at the agriculture center, will see construction begin later in the summer.

“We all knew there was a gap in infrastructure for many years,” said Aslan Meade, director of strategic alliances for the Thurston County Economic Development Council. He was speaking at the Regional Ag Infrastructure Summit that took place Wednesday in Tenino.

Grain project at Port of Chehalis boosts farmers in southwest Washington

Grain growers gets help to transport their crops.

Farmers markets rally around vendors who lost their home; Clean Air Agency visits ag board – Nate’s Notes

Here are several items of note about agriculture in the Puget Sound region

Delegation traveled to DC to talk red raspberry trade

Representatives from the Washington Red Raspberry Commission traveled to Washington, D.C. in early June to advocate for the industry’s trade priorities. Commission officials met with members of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, as well as senior agricultural staff and administration officials, to engage in discussions

Read next