Producer
National Beef Packing Company
4th largest US beef packer; ~10-12% of US beef processing. Major plants at Liberal, KS (one of the largest US beef plants) and Dodge City, KS. Owned by Marfrig Global Foods (Brazil) — the world's 4th largest beef company. Two of the US's Big 4 beef packers (JBS, National Beef) are owned by Brazilian companies; together with Cargill (US, private), they process ~85% of US beef. National Beef also owns Kansas City Steak Company (premium retail) and Bravada International (tallow/technical products).
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manufactured
Beef Tallow (Technical/Inedible Grade) →
agricultural
Pork, Beef & Poultry Meat Trims (Processed Meat Feedstock) →
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Raw Cattle Hides (Green Hides) →
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Collagen Casings (Beef Hide Collagen) →
agricultural
Rendered Animal Protein Meal (Chicken / Meat Meal) →
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Beef Slaughter & Processing
85%Technical Beef Products (Bravada International)
Premium Retail Beef (Kansas City Steak Company)
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Did you know2023
National Beef's Bravada International subsidiary produces inedible beef tallow from slaughterhouse rendering — and tallow has become a premium feedstock for HEFA-pathway Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) and renewable diesel, as airlines and refineries (Neste, Diamond Green Diesel, Marathon) compete for limited animal fat supply. The same Liberal, Kansas facility that processes beef for American grocery stores also generates the jet fuel feedstock that airlines use to meet their sustainability targets. Beef consumption volumes directly cap the amount of tallow-based SAF available globally — a cow raised for food is simultaneously an input to aviation's decarbonization strategy.
National Beef Packing Company ↗Origin2023
National Beef Packing was founded in 1992 and passed to Brazilian ownership when Marfrig Global Foods acquired a majority stake in 2018. Two of America's four largest beef packers (JBS USA and National Beef) are now Brazilian-controlled, together handling approximately 35-40% of all US beef slaughter. This concentration received renewed national security scrutiny following the May 2021 JBS cyberattack that shut down US beef processing for days and revealed the fragility of a food processing system concentrated in foreign-owned facilities.
National Beef Packing Company ↗Capacity2023
National Beef's Liberal, Kansas plant processes 4,000+ head per day — one of the largest single-site beef operations in the US — combined with Dodge City giving ~10-12% of US beef (5-6 million cattle/year). Liberal's geographic location in the High Plains feedlot region makes it structurally dependent on Ogallala Aquifer water for both plant operations and the regional cattle-feeding industry supplying it. The Ogallala is declining at 1-3 feet per year in parts of Kansas, creating a 50-100 year geological time horizon for this supply chain node.
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