Better For Butchery — Integrated Meat Platform

Princeton, KY · Proving It Works First

The Integrated Meat Platform Powering a New Meat Economy

Our business is co-packing. But the infrastructure we've built in Princeton, KY is proving something much larger is possible — a fully integrated regional meat economy where animals are raised, harvested, processed, packed, and consumed within the same communities. Every dollar stays local. Every tax stays local. Every health outcome stays local.

And the economic winner isn't predetermined. Through our farmer buyback program — powered by porterroad.com — farmers participate directly in the upside of specialty cuts they couldn't otherwise monetize.

Infrastructure

USDA-backed processing, packaging, cold storage, and fulfillment — the backbone every independent farmer deserves access to.

Nourishment

Clean, traceable protein connecting communities to the farms and farmers who raised it — from pasture to customers' dinner table.

Resilience

Self-reliant regional economies built through direct farmer-to-processor relationships that keep dollars circulating locally.

Regional Self-Reliance in Action

Food Is Medicine

Livingston Hospital

Pasture-raised beef processed at our Princeton facility prescribed to patients as part of a clinical food-as-medicine program. Raised, processed, and fed in the same region.

Raised Livingston Co. · Processed Caldwell Co. · Fed Livingston Co.

Feed Students

Hopkins County Schools

Local school districts receive fresh, traceable protein — replacing commodity programs with a farmer-direct supply chain. Dollars, wages, and taxes all stay within the Commonwealth.

Raised locally · Processed Caldwell Co. · Fed Hopkins Co.

Program Partners

"What BFB is doing is really going to be the model for the rest of the country."

Travis Burton · USDA Rural Development Director, Kentucky

RFD-TV Market Day Report · January 2026

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Rittenberry Farms — BFB's primary farm partner since 2013

Our Mission

Helping FarmersScale Their Legacies

Joey Rittenberry raises beef and pork the way it's supposed to be done — pasture-based, no confinement, no hormones, no antibiotics. His family has farmed in Burna, Kentucky for generations. For over a decade, his animals were Porter Road's primary supply. Now he's also our processing customer — we helped him launch the Rittenberry Farms brand and scale his legacy.

Through BFB's co-packing infrastructure, Joey has his own brand. His meat is raised in Livingston County, processed at our USDA facility in Caldwell County, and sold directly back to his own community — including at Livingston Hospital as part of the Food Is Medicine initiative.

"It's to promote better nutrition for our people in the Commonwealth. Fortunately, we have Rittenberry Farms. We thought it was a great partnership."

Shane Whittington · CEO, Livingston Hospital

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Pasture-raised pork from Rittenberry Farms — processed at the BFB facility in Princeton, KY

Open pasture at Rittenberry Farms — 8–9K hogs raised per year

10+

Years as Primary Farmer

8–9K

Pasture-Raised Hogs/Year

Brand Launch

Live via BFB Co-Packing

Princeton, KY

The Plant BehindPorter Road— And Open to More.

For nearly a decade, the Princeton facility was the silent engine behind Porter Road, one of the most recognized brands in craft butchery in the country. That work built the standards: how cuts come off, how labels go on, how product moves through the cold chain to a customer's door.

Porter Road is an important proof point for what the platform can do. It is not the whole company.

Better For Butchery is the operating platform. Porter Road is the clearest proof of what that platform can do when brand standards, cold chain, and cut-sheet discipline are aligned end to end.

Visit Porter Road →

The BFB team in the Princeton facility, holding Porter Road product

Execution

Your Cut SheetIsn't a Suggestion.

Some partners come in with a fully built cut plan. Others are still figuring out what works.

We handle both.

We execute to spec when it's defined — and help refine, standardize, and scale when it's not. That's how you get consistent product, cleaner operations, and a program that holds together as you grow.

Whether you're dialing it in, scaling up, or carving your next program — we meet you where you are.

Hand-cut butchery at the Princeton facility

Simplify Your Supply Chain Feed Your Community Scale Your Legacy

Co-Packing & Fulfillment

The Integrated Meat Platform Powering a New Meat Economy

Helping FarmersScale Their Legacies

The Plant BehindPorter Road— And Open to More.

Your Cut SheetIsn't a Suggestion.

Join the New Meat Economy