2008 Awards:
Champion - Cooked Ring Bologna
Reserve Champion - Meat Snack Sticks
Grand Champion - Large Diameter Luncheon Meat
2009 Awards:
Reserved Grand Champion - Large Diameter Luncheon Meats
2010 Award:
Grand Champion - Specialty Beef Product
2011 Awards:
Reserved Grand Champion - Large Diameter Luncheon Meat
Reserve Grand Champion - Dried Beef
2012 Awards:
Reserve Champion - Summer Sausage
Reserve Grand Champion - Specialty Beef Product
Grand Champion - Large Diameter Luncheon Meat
2013 Awards:
Reserve Grand Champion - Large Diameter Luncheon Meat
Reserve Grand Champion - Bacon
Reserve Grand Champion - Center Cut Smoked Pork Loin
Grand Champion - Specialty Ham
2014 Awards:
Grand Champion - Frankfurters/Wieners
Reserve Grand Champion - Specialty Ham
Reserve Grand Champion - Summer Sausage
Reserve Grand Champion - Center Cut Smoked Pork Loin
Champion - Meat Snack Sticks
Elma Locker & Grocery, Inc. excels in the process of curing and smoking meats. We are approaching our 7th year in business and have brought home 14 awards in a short time. Our bacon has improved from 5th place at the Iowa Meat Processors Convention in February 2012 to 2nd place at the state in 2013.
Elma Locker & Grocery, Inc.
100 Grant Street
Elma, IA 50628
Phone: 641-393-2287
Fax: 641-393-2330
Contact Us: elmalockergrocery@gmail.com
Elma Locker
& Grocery, Inc. is owned and operated by Roger and Karen Meirick,
and Joe and Pat Meirick. Joe and Roger are cousins. Together they
decided the town of Elma, IA and surrounding communities needed this kind of business after the grocery store and the locker closed their doors. We opened our doors for business on October 16, 2006.
Since opening our doors on October 16, 2006, the Elma Locker & Grocery, Inc. has brought home many awards from the Iowa Meat Processors Association Convention and Trade Show. The Iowa Meat Processors Association Convention and Trade Show is held yearly in Ames, Iowa. There are twenty classes that a meat processor can enter. The products are judged by a team of thirty professionals from Iowa State University and several other universities as well as some industry experts. Products are scored on external and internal appearance, flavor and aroma, and workmanship. Awards are as follows: Grand Champion is first place, Reserve Grand Champion is second place, Champion is third place, and Reserve Champion is fourth place. We started entering our meat products to be judged at the convention in 2008.
2015 Awards:
2016 Awards:
2017 Awards:
Reserve Grand Champion - Center Cut Smoked Pork Loin
Reserve Grand Champion - Frankfurters/Wieners; Coarse Ground
Champion - Cottage Bacon
Reserve Champion - Jerky; Whole Muscle
2018 Awards:
Grand Champion - Specialty Ham
Grand Champion - Liver Sausage
Grand Champion - Innovative Pork Product - Breakfast Strips
Reserve Grand Champion - Restructured Jerky
Champion - Large Diameter Luncheon Meat
Reserve Champion - Bacon
2019 Awards
Grand Champion - Smoked Turkey
Grand Champion- Cooked Ring Bologna
Reserve Grand Champion - Large Diameter Luncheon Meat
Reserve Grand Champion - Jerky Whole Muscle
2020 Awards
Grand Champion - Center Cut Pork Loin
Champion - Cooked Ring Bologna
Champion - Large Diameter Luncheon Meat