Our main focus for raising poultry at Nelson-Shine Produce is chickens and turkeys.  However, on occasion we do offer ducks or geese as well.  These are usually done by special request, so if this is something that interests you, please contact Ron and Barb for more information. 

In addition to processing that of others, we raise much of our own poultry. We enjoy being able to provide farm-fresh chickens for those who don't have the desire or facilities to raise their own poultry meat.  We purchase our chickens at several days of age from several different suppliers and raise them until they are approximately 8 weeks of age. At this point, they are butchered in our processing building and available for sale. If farm fresh poultry is something that you are interested in, we have frozen chickens available for purchase as well.  This is all done under inspection by the state, which allows us to sell our meat to you. 

We have several farm-raised steers for sale at any time.  They were purchased from area dairy farms as Holstein-cross and Holstein milk calves, and have been raised by Nick and Gretchen from about a week of age or less and have not been given hormones or antibiotics.  In the summer they have free choice of grass and are fed a finisher pellet and rolled corn mixture daily.  In the winter months, they are kept closer to the barn and fed grass hay, corn silage, and a finisher pellet with rolled corn .  We pride ourselves in keeping them happy and healthy, and allowing them to roam as they choose.  It is our opinion that happy and healthy animals will provide a better product for our customers.  And, as always, we strive to have all of our products be the best. 

The steers are finished out to 1,000-1,300 pounds and upon request by a customer, taken to slaughter at Lakes Area Meats (previously Stuffy's) in Hillman.  We have been extremely happy with their processing job as it is done custom to each customer's request and needs.  Once slaughtered, the carcass is allowed to hang for 10 days prior to processing, and then picked up by us and delivered to you.  Beef price is $2.20 per pound of hanging weight, and includes processing, wrapping, and delivery to you. 

We request that if you have questions about our beef availability or prices, you contact Nick and Gretchen. 

At Nelson-Shine Produce there are several different kinds of meat that we have available. We pride ourselves on giving you the absolute best products we can provide by raising our animals without hormones and antibiotics, keeping them happy as they grow, and by providing quality processing. It is very important to us that you know where your food is being raised and handled, which is something that isn't provided at a supermarket.