Island Grown Farmers Cooperative, a co-op in Washington state that operated a mobile slaughter unit and a cut-and-wrap facility in Bow, Wash., has announced plans for a new processing plant in the Port of Skagit. The new facility, according to goskagit.com, will be two-and-a-half times larger than its current plant and will roughly double the number of animals processed over the next several years, said Phil Shephard, the co-op’s board president and a ranch owner in Friday Harbor.
IGFC says that it provides USDA-inspected mobile animal slaughter services to members and non-members in San Juan, Whatcom, Skagit, Island and Snohomish counties in Washington State. Meat cut/wrap, storage and some retail sales services are provided at IGFC’s facility in Bow. The business is owned by the member-producers and is directed by an elected board and its officers.