packing house
Where livestock becomes product
A packing house is a facility where agricultural products are processed and prepared for market.
For meat, this means slaughtering, butchering, and packaging animals: He worked at the packing house for thirty years.
For produce, it means sorting, grading, and boxing fruits or vegetables for shipment.
- meatpackingProcessing livestock into food
- cattleDomesticated bovines kept commercially
- carcassSlaughtered animal's body
- butcherOne who sells cuts
- processingSystematic operation on data
meat inspector · refrigeration · conveyor · assembly line · hooks · blood · hogs · rendering · cold storage · cold chain · cleaver · USDA · stockyard · kill floor · cutting · trimming · boning · workers
- farm structuresbarn, barn door, silo, chicken coop, hay barn
- agribusinessagribusiness, farm, farms, corporate farms, factory farming
- avocado farmingavocado trees, pickers, irrigation systems, mature trees, grafting
- fish farmingfish farming, fish farm, fish farms, aquaculture, pisciculture
- meatpackingslaughterhouse, meatpacker, abattoirs, meatpacking plant, slaughter
- bananasbananas, banana, plantain, plantains, banana leaves