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Tuesday, June 28, 2011
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Hubble Meats is new Kentucky Proud source of locally raised beef and pork products

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Hubble Meats of Lincoln County has been upgraded to USDA-inspected status, joined Kentucky Proud, and added a retail sales area under owner Hal Akers.

Hal Akers and Sam Lawson“Hubble Meats provides beef and pork producers a new local market for their products while enabling consumers to find locally raised Kentucky Proud meats,” Agriculture Commissioner Richie Farmer said. “I commend Hal Akers and his farm manager, Sam Lawson, for their efforts and welcome them to the Kentucky Proud family.”

With the upgrade, Hubble Meats now can sell meat by the piece from its retail store. Akers’ goal is to process 10 head of cattle from his operation plus several hogs and cattle from other producers on a weekly basis to supply the region with fresh, homegrown meats.

Hubble Meats offers carcass grading through the Kentucky Department of Agriculture’s free carcass grading service, giving producers and consumers a yardstick by which to measure the quality of the products it processes. The plant processes beef and pork under U.S. Department of Agriculture or custom processing procedures.

Hubble Meats recently added a smoker, which will enable the plant to cook and develop further value-added products such as summer sausage.

The upgrade and the addition of the retail store is a step in the evolution of Akers Farms, Hal Akers’ 450-cow beef operation. Of that number, 300 head are registered Angus, and the upgrade of the processing plant provides a new outlet for the farm’s high-quality Angus beef. Under the direction of farm manager Sam Lawson, Akers Farms sells its best bulls in breeding stock sales while feeding some of the others to market weight under an agreement with JBS Swift.

Hubble Meats is located between Stanford and Lancaster. For more information, call (606) 365-4994.

 

 

Hal Akers, left, and Sam Lawson.