For 18 years, CJ’s Custom Meats in rural Wapato, WA, has provided quality meat packing, butchering and smoking to Valley farmers and local customers. The owner, Michael Rockholt, went straight through 4-H and FFA in high school, butchering school, and working in retail meats to opening his own business. Rockholt's business of butchering is steadily becoming a lost art across the industry. CJ’s Custom Meats butchers cows, pigs, and wild game such as deer and elk. He even has a small retail area — now an unusual practice among butchers....
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