Weaver's of Wellsville

Employee Size

2-10

Headquarters

Wellsville, PA

Since Jacob Weaver began cutting meat on his Northern York County farm in 1889, Weaver’s of Wellsville has grown into a fifth-generation, family-owned maker of smoked meats and a food distributor. The Wellsville company still smokes its meats over open fires fueled by locally sourced logs, carrying its old-fashioned bologna and other family recipes from a local butcher shop to customers nationwide. With 75 employees today, Weaver’s also offers private-label production and custom deer-meat processing.

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  Carl Rittberger Sr., IncSince 1910, four generations of the Rittberger family have made beef and pork products in Zanesville, Ohio, supplying wholesale customers and local markets with old-fashioned meats. The company continues to raise cattle on more than 450 acres and smoke meats in its original masonry smokehouse using locally harvested hickory wood. Its recipes and procedures remain rooted in the traditions established by founder Carl Rittberger Sr.ZANESVILLE, OH
• Croghan Meat Market, IncSince 1888, Croghan Meat Market has made traditional cured and smoked meats in its Croghan, New York, processing plant and retail shop, best known for the Swiss-style ring sausage that became Croghan Bologna. The Campany family has carried the business through four generations, continuing to make its recipes from scratch at the same Main Street location while selling to customers across Northern New York and beyond. Its federally inspected plant combines that long local history with modern food-safety oversight.CROGHAN, NY
• Seltzer's Smokehouse MeatsSince Harvey Seltzer developed his spice blend in 1902, Seltzer’s Smokehouse Meats has made Lebanon Bologna and other all-beef smoked meats in Palmyra, Pennsylvania. Now fourth-generation owned, the family still uses tall wooden smokehouses and hand-tended fires for its signature three-day natural hardwood smoking process, without fillers or artificial smoke. Seltzer’s was the country’s first federally inspected Lebanon Bologna company and remains one of the oldest continually USDA-inspected operations in the United States.PALMYRA, PA
• Thomas Smoked MeatsFounded by Adam and Linda Thomas in 1999, Thomas Smoked Meats grew from a small smoked-meat shop into a family business known for clean, custom deer and wild-game processing in the Johnstown area. Its expanded operation now includes a country store focused on convenient, less-processed foods and custom butchery supplied through local farm partnerships. The company has processed several thousand deer in recent years and ships specialty game-bird products nationwide.JOHNSTOWN, PA