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Pursuing his passion
MAXWELL — After 149 years of processing beef for farmers and customers in Iowa, Amend Packing Co. closed its doors in 2018. But more than a year ago, Tucker Maxwell drew upon his experience working at a meat locker and decided to breathe new life into the old Amend building and opened his own custom processing business. Five generations of the Amend family worked at their business. Most of the meat was processed by hand in the company's cold warehouse. Cattle would arrive whole with instructions on how customers wanted them cut. A seventh-generation farmer with his family, ...
