Yellowstone Country, Montana Mobile Refrigeration Trailer Rental

The Viewpoint with Matt Pierson

The local source article “The Viewpoint with Matt Pierson,” dated April 24, 2025, reports Livingston Food Resource Center ran out of freezer room during the early meat-donation effort that became the Producer Partnership. Western Livestock Journal's April 24, 2025 interview with rancher Matt Pierson recalled that the first local donations filled the center's freezer within two weeks. By April 2020 the initiative had donated roughly 3,000,4,000 pounds of meat, while further livestock donations were arriving and processing capacity was also becoming difficult to obtain. Those were separate constraints: processed food needed a receiving destination, and livestock still needed a processor. The account later traced the partnership's own processing facility to its July 2022 opening. Yellowstone Country service includes Livingston, Bozeman, Belgrade and Three Forks across the Park,Gallatin corridor. We cover Gardiner and West Yellowstone on the park approaches, plus Big Timber, Columbus and Red Lodge across Sweet Grass, Stillwater and Carbon counties

The April 24, 2025 interview recalled the receiving limit reached during the early-2020 donation drive. Within two weeks the Livingston center told the ranchers it could accept no more freezer stock. Continued animal donations then made processing access another obstacle as the initiative grew.

For a comparable drive, temporary mobile refrigeration rental could address the receiving pantry's frozen holding limit, but it would not create more slaughter or processing capacity. Confirm the packaged-food quantity that can move into storage before commissioning another batch from a processor. Call +1 (866) 216-4667 on our 24/7 phone line to discuss frozen stock, receiving access and distribution timing.