S&S Meats ramps up as hunting season winds down | Business
As firearm season wrapped up at the end of November, deer season is winding down. Only Minnesota’s muzzleloader and archery season remain in effect in December.
As the deer season ends, S&S Meats is just ramping up. So far this year, the Grand Rapids meat market/smokehouse has received 810 deer for processing.
Owners Paul and Brandon Hager said S&S Meats can process the venison into nearly anything the customer requests, such as venison bacon, burgers, and snack sticks. They can also make more than 100 flavors of brats and they expect to be filling orders until March.
“The summer sausage and the snack sticks are probably the biggest ones,” Brandon said. “Venison bacon is getting big, but that’s more of a Wisconsin thing.”
Meat cutting is a Hager family tradition spanning five generations. It…
