Camanche, Iowa
American Cattle Harvest Company
USDA-inspected beef harvest and fabrication — a purpose-built 2022 plant operating on a toll model, so you keep title to your cattle and your product from delivery to load-out.
Facility at a glance
A modern plant, purpose-built for beef
Constructed in 2022 on a 12.5-acre site with direct US-67 frontage, the plant pairs a full harvest floor with fabrication, packaging, and cold storage under one roof.
- Built
- 2022
- Under roof
- ~25,684 sq ft
- Site
- 12.5 acres
- Designed throughput
- Up to 120 head/day
- Load-out
- 2 refrigerated docks
- Utilities
- On-site wastewater pretreatment
The toll model
Your cattle. Your product. Our plant.
We do not buy cattle and we do not sell beef. Customers retain title to their livestock and finished product at every step. We are paid per head for harvest and per pound for fabrication, so your margin stays yours.
- You deliver cattle on a scheduled harvest date and supply your cut and packaging specifications.
- We harvest, chill, fabricate, package, and stage product for your freight.
- You receive hot and cold carcass weights, yield reporting, and lot-level documentation.
Services
Harvest through boxed product
Take the whole line or only the steps you need. Every service runs under our food safety and quality program.
Harvest
Humane handling from receiving pens through the harvest floor, under continuous USDA inspection.
Chill & Cooling
Spray-chill and carcass coolers sized for full-day harvests, with controlled, documented chill curves that protect product quality and food safety. We cool and hold carcasses through the required chill process only; aging is not provided.
Fabrication & portioning
Primal, subprimal, and portion cutting on dedicated fabrication lines with trim control.
Grinding
Lean-point grinding to your specification, with chub or bulk packaging options.
Vacuum packaging & boxing
Vacuum sealing, labeling, and case-ready boxing for cold chain distribution.
Cold storage & load-out
Box coolers and two refrigerated docks for staged pickup and outbound freight.
Identity preservation
Traceability from live animal to box label
Program beef only works when the paperwork holds up. We keep customer lots separate and carry identification the entire way through the plant.
- Live animal identification tied to carcass tag and then to box label
- No commingling of customer lots on the floor or in the coolers
- Hot and cold carcass weights with per-lot yield reporting
- Documentation suited to source-verified and branded programs
The plant
Inside the facility
Location & logistics
Eastern Iowa, on the highway
1902 7th Avenue, Camanche, Iowa. Highway 67 adjacent, minutes from Highway 30, and roughly 20 miles from Interstate 80 — with a five-hour radius reaching Chicago, Des Moines, Minneapolis, St. Louis, and Kansas City.
Get started
Tell us what you need harvested
Send head counts, timing, and cut specifications and we will come back with available harvest dates and a scope for fabrication and packaging.