Heritage Acres Pork: Ready For Delivery

Ozark Mountain Pork, our co-op packing plant located in Mountain View, Missouri, has been producing high quality pork for over a year now. Two hundred fifty pigs per week are being processed into high quality pork products like hams, loins, smoked pork chops and a whole variety of sausage products.

The pork carries the Heritage Acres label--meaning the pigs were raised with a minimum of antibiotics and growth hormones. It qualifies as a “Natural” product and besides the good taste, appeals to consumers who don’t want a lot of added ingredients.

The Ozark Mountain Pork producers are Missouri Farmers Union members. Their attention to superior genetics, caring husbandry and control of the packing process results in a product that is superior in every way. These products are available for delivery now.

Deliveries north of Mountain View arrive on Thursdays and those south of Mountain View on Fridays. Regular deliveries are currently going to Jefferson City, Columbia, Fulton, Bowling Green and nearby areas. People wishing delivery from the plant must make a bulk order of one hundred dollars or one hundred pounds. (The retail price list is provided below for your reference. Reduced prices are available when ordering in bulk.)

If you don’t need that much pork at one time, products also are available through your local grocery store if supplied by Associated Wholesale Grocers or Jones Poultry. If your store does not already carry the Heritage Acres Brand please request that they carry it and to display it in a prominent location.

Heritage Acres Pork is the result of a lot of hard work by the Cooperative Development Center housed at the Missouri Farmers Union Family Farm Opportunity Center in Jefferson City. Funding was received from both USDA and the Missouri State Department of Agriculture grant programs, which recognize that family farms are an important ingredient in rural life and economies. Ozark Mountain Pork is a national model of what farmers can do when they set their minds to a task.

If you really want to see these products in your local store, consider “sampling” them. That means cooking up small samples to serve store customers and telling this heart warming story of farmers who are taking back control of the food processing and distribution system. Contact Steve Burdic or Jodie Dudenhoeffer at the Missouri Farmers Union Family Farm Opportunity Center for more details. Their phone number is 573-659-4787 and the email address is sburdic@missourifarmersunion.org.

We will see you around the old campfire (grilling Brats).