GARDINER — One of the great bottlenecks to the production of food in Maine is the infrastructure that’s needed to get it from field to market.
For producers of beef, lamb and pork, that bottleneck will be eased when Central Maine Meats opens its slaughterhouse for red meat in the Libby Hill Business Park for business.
When that happens, Steve McGee will have another option to take his cattle and pigs to market. A man who wears many hats, McGee raises beef and pork on McGee Farms in West Gardiner. When it’s time to take his animals to be slaughtered and processed, they have to be trucked 600 miles to a facility in Pennsylvania. The demand for service is so high, McGee has to make an appointment, and sometimes the wait time is several months.
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