Meat processing plants in Iowa

Iowa has 68 meat processors in EPA records, facilities that list codes for meat and poultry slaughtering and processing. The most are in Sioux City, Denison and Postville. That is 4% of the 1,589 such facilities nationwide, and Iowa ranks #7 of 46 states.

Product: Meat processing plants
Facilities: 68
State rank: #7
NAICS: 311611 and 3 related codes
Revised: November 1, 2026

Facilities in Iowa

These are active facilities in EPA's ECHO database that list a code for meat and poultry slaughtering and processing. The 40 shown first are the ones with the most EPA program records, which usually means the larger sites.

Facility	City	What EPA lists
Cargill Meat Solutions Corp	Ottumwa	Animal (except Poultry) Slaughtering
Swift & Company	Marshalltown	Animal (except Poultry) Slaughtering
Osi Industries, LLC	Oakland	Meat Processed from Carcasses
Smithfield Farmland Corp - Denison	Denison	Animal (except Poultry) Slaughtering
Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp. - Sioux City, Ia	Sioux City	Meat Processed from Carcasses
Rousselot, Inc.	Dubuque	Animal (except Poultry) Slaughtering
Conagra Foods Packaged Foods LLC	Fort Madison	Meat Processed from Carcasses
Agri Star Meat And Poultry LLC	Postville	Animal (except Poultry) Slaughtering
Burke Corporation	Nevada	Meat Processed from Carcasses
Tyson Fresh Meats	Columbus Junction	Animal (except Poultry) Slaughtering
Darling International Inc	Clinton	Rendering and Meat Byproduct Processing
Denison Foods	Denison	Animal (except Poultry) Slaughtering
Gelita USA, Inc.	Sergeant Bluff	Rendering and Meat Byproduct Processing
Tyson Fresh Meats Inc	Perry	Animal (except Poultry) Slaughtering
Tyson Fresh Meats Inc - Storm Lake	Storm Lake	Animal (except Poultry) Slaughtering
Tyson Fresh Meats, Inc. - Columbus Junction	Columbus Junction	Meat Processed from Carcasses
Boyer Valley Organic Protein	Arion	Rendering and Meat Byproduct Processing
Darling International	Sioux City	Rendering and Meat Byproduct Processing
Darling International Inc.	Des Moines	Animal (except Poultry) Slaughtering
Farmland Foods Incorporated	Carroll	Animal (except Poultry) Slaughtering
Iowa Quality Beef	Tama	Animal (except Poultry) Slaughtering
Kansas City Sausage Company, LLC	Des Moines	Animal (except Poultry) Slaughtering
Kraft Heinz - Davenport	Davenport	Meat Processed from Carcasses
Lime Springs Beef, LLC (Now Upper Iowa Beef, LLC)	Lime Springs	Animal (except Poultry) Slaughtering
Mesa Holdings LLC (DBA Iowa Protein	Estherville	Rendering and Meat Byproduct Processing
Michael Foods-Epc	Lenox	Poultry Processing
Osceola Foods Inc	Osceola	Animal (except Poultry) Slaughtering
Prestage Foods Of Iowa	Eagle Grove	Animal (except Poultry) Slaughtering
Seaboard Triumph Foods	City Of Sioux City	Animal (except Poultry) Slaughtering
Tyson Fresh Meats Inc	Denison	Animal (except Poultry) Slaughtering
Tyson Fresh Meats, Inc. - Waterloo, Ia.	Waterloo	Animal (except Poultry) Slaughtering
West Liberty Foods - West Liberty	West Liberty	Poultry Processing
Agristar Meat And Poultry, LLC	Postville	Meat Processed from Carcasses
Alton Rendering Works	Alton	Rendering and Meat Byproduct Processing
Armour-Eckrich Branded Meats	Mason City	Animal (except Poultry) Slaughtering
Bud's Custom Meats, Inc	Riverside	Animal (except Poultry) Slaughtering
Clarion Locker	Clarion	Meat Processed from Carcasses
Edgewood Locker Inc	Edgewood	Animal (except Poultry) Slaughtering
Excel Specialty Products	Orange City	Meat Processed from Carcasses
Fair Oaks Foods	Davenport	Meat Processed from Carcasses

Industry codes are reported by facilities to EPA programs and are not checked here. A few listings may be repair shops, distributors or recyclers. How these records work.