—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 4,1978
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Tom Tice, the 22-year-old co-owner of Host
Acres Farms Quality Meats, is the head boner is
the butchering operation. Donna Wolfe, in the
foreground, is a trimmer of the primal cuts.
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The dream of 2 Leb Co, farm boys comes true
By JOANNE SPAHR
LEBANON - For two
aspiring country boys from
Lebanon County, the stars
have been in the right
positions during the past two
years. Like independent
satellites, they traveled in
different spheres for most of
their lives - one a dairyman,
and the other a butcher.
Then, one day their paths
chose to cross, and both saw
the possibility for the
fulfillment of a united
dream. Today, nearly two
years later, that dream has
long since materialized and
is alive and prosperous.
Krall Hostetter, Lebanon,
and Tom Tice, Newman
stown, own and operate Host
'Acres Farms Quality Meats,
a butcher shop in the village
of Reistville. Seventy-five
per cent of their trade is in
boneless beef, which goes for
hamburger, bologna, or hot
dogs.
Two years ago neither
Tice, 22, or Hostetter, 31,
could have envisioned the
shop as it is today. At that
time Tice was employed as a
boner by a Berks r County
butcher and Hostefter was
operating his own 117 acre,
75-cow dairy farm near
Lebanon as well as working
part tune in a butcher shop.
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Although both had
aspirations of running their
own slaughtering operation,
neither had the capital or the
experience to do it alone.
“Then, one Thursday,
Tom walked into the butcher
shop where I worked and
said, ‘Why don’t we get
together and buy this place,’
and we got a loan and did
just that,” states Hostetter.
That’s when the adventure
began.
Originally purchased with
freezer orders in mind, the
shop was soon heading
toward difficulty in that
marketing area because of
competition by other
established, well known
shops in the vicinity. To
alleviate the slow trade, the
new co-owners were faced
with changing their
operation Jo market a dif
ferent type of product.
The question at that time
was, “What can we produce
that few others in the area
do?” The answer for Host
Acres was boneless beef.
“We originally didn’t know
that so much boneless beef
was consumed in Lebanon
County,” say the owners,
“But we thought with the
livestock markets in this
area, why should the
packers the cows, ship
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Quality Meats, Myerstown, works on the Kill floor
as well as in the capacity of chief livestock buyer
for the business.
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