Award-winning meat products a cut above the rest

March 17, 2025 -- PIGEON FALLS – Though Falls Meat Service has changed hands a few times over the last 50 years, it has always been a family owned business – an aspect of the Pigeon Falls business that remains true today.

The local butcher got its start in 1974 when Howard and Barb Olson bought a meat locker business that had been attached to a general/grocery store business in Pigeon Falls.

Upon purchasing the business, the Olsons built a new building that became home to Falls Meat Service, which was founded that same year by Howard and his brother-in-law, Verdell “Del” Helstad....   ...more