Company Information
Leading the Way in Quality Beef
National Beef's majority owner, U.S. Premium Beef, empowers its rancher-owners to manage their operations more effectively and respond to customer preferences. This provides National Beef® with a steady supply of high quality cattle. The aim of every National Beef supplier is to follow strict guidelines that deliver high quality cattle, providing beef your customers will want to buy again and again.
Expanding Our Midwestern Values Westward
For years National Beef has been providing quality beef to customers across the country. Now, with the purchase of the state-of-the-art processing facility in Brawley, California, we are strategically positioned for even more efficient distribution.

Innovative Beef Processing Technology
At National Beef we're committed to innovation, and we have the state-of-the-art facilities that demonstrate our commitment to processing technology. At our facilities in western Kansas and California, our case ready facilities in Pennsylvania and Georgia, and our portion control facility in Kansas City, we continually implement programs, technologies and procedures to ensure safe, consistent beef processing.

Our innovative Biologic® Food Safety System is more than an industry-leading process; it's a fully integrated company philosophy that ensures every box of National Beef's product is safer and cleaner.

Brawley Plant Expands State-of-the-Art Processing
The Brawley beef plant, built in 2001, is the industry's newest processing facility in 22 years. Its location and functionality add value to cattle raised locally in the rich, fertile Imperial Valley.

Products and Programs
We know that even the finest products must be backed by responsive service, so we have dedicated significant resources to develop our unique and centralized sales and customer service team. Each call is answered 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Plus we provide you even greater control through online merchandising ordering and shipment tracking.

National Beef has a variety of branded programs to establish your operation as the quality beef destination in your marketplace. And we back these brands with extensive marketing resources to drive recognition and build consumer loyalty.



Natural Has Gone National
Natural is rapidly expanding in the fresh beef category. National Beef® is taking the lead with our proprietary natural beef programs. Each program offers unique attributes to meet various customer needs.



From case ready to fresh-chilled variety meats, ground beef to traditional 1/4" trim and 1/8" trim and blocked, National Beef has a variety of program options to help you build customer loyalty and increase sales.

 National Beef Today


  • National Beef's Liberal location was originally founded by the Jacobson family in 1968.
  • Our Dodge City location was formerly the HyPlains Beef operation and was purchased in 1992 by our senior management team and Farmland Industries.
  • In 1993, National Beef purchased the Liberal location and renamed it Farmland National Beef LLC.
  • U.S. Premium Beef Ltd. purchased a minority interest in December of 1997. The company was jointly owned by Farmland Industries and U.S. Premium Beef Ltd.
  • In the Spring of 2001, National Beef began Case Ready cutting operations in Hummel's Wharf, PA and Moultrie, Ga.

  • August of 2003, U.S. Premium Beef Ltd. purchased majority interest with an NBP management group and Beef Products Inc. as minority investors. The company was renamed National Beef Packing Co. LLC.

  • June of 2006, National Beef and it's majority owner, U.S. Premium Beef, acquired Brawley Beef, LLC of Brawley, Ca.