WASHINGTON — Brian Furnish of Harrison County has been raising cattle since 1994. If he wants to sell individual cuts directly to consumers, he has to go through a USDA-certified facility.
“Basically, all it does is they get the USDA stamp put on it, and that costs me more money to do that, and it’s hard to get into those facilities, so what I’ve been doing is taking it to a non-USDA graded facility, and I can only sell quarters, halves and wholes.”
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