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Deer and Game Processors from the Ozarks to the Delta
Browse 28 game processors region by region, or search for a business, a town or a county name.
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Moving an Arkansas deer the legal way
Check it within 12 hours
Game Check: check deer, turkey and bear immediately (online, AGFC app or 833-289-2469) or tag first with the license/guidebook tag in ink, then check within 12 hours and write the check number on the tag. Duplicate harvest information stays with all parts until final storage.
Head and sex stay on
Check within 12 hours; evidence of sex must remain until checked; quarters may be separated but the head stays with them; button bucks must be checked as button bucks. Use the private land deer zone number or the WMA/NWR zone number.
Signed note for gifted game
Wildlife taken by someone else must have a signed statement (name, address, species, date, license number); also applies to camps, processors and taxidermists.
Free CWD testing
Free CWD testing: refrigerated drop-off containers (head with about 6 inches of neck), taxidermists, AGFC regional offices (call ahead).
Carcasses inside the zone
Intact carcasses from a Tier 1 county move freely between Tier 1 counties; only low-risk parts into Tier 2 or outside the zone. Tier 2 carcasses move between Tier 2 counties or into Tier 1; only low-risk parts outside the zone.
Deer from other states
No importing or possessing any part of a deer, elk, moose, caribou or other cervid taken outside Arkansas except low-risk parts: deboned meat, antlers/clean skull plates or skulls, cleaned teeth, finished taxidermy, hides and tanned products (deer taken between the Mississippi River levees in Tennessee and Mississippi excluded).
Sources: Hunting Guidebook, PDF p. 24; Hunting Guidebook, PDF p. 48; Hunting Guidebook, PDF p. 26. Checked: cited pages reread line by line on November 9, 2026.
Arkansas game processors statewide
26 of the 28 game processors have coordinates and sit on the map; tap a dot for the name. 2 more listings without a point stay in the list below.
Arkansas game processors sorted by AGFC region
AGFC Region 1 (Jonesboro): 3
AGFC Region 2 (Brinkley): 1
AGFC Region 3 (Monticello): 1
AGFC Region 4 (Perrytown): 2
AGFC Region 5 (Fort Smith): 6
AGFC Region 6 (Jasper): 9
AGFC Region 7 (Mayflower): 6
AGFC publishes no list of deer processors, and the Arkansas Hunters Feeding the Hungry processor list could not be reached, so 25 of these rows are page-one Yellow Pages meat-processing results for Arkansas towns; 3 more come from the AGFC 2026-27 CWD participating taxidermist list because the shop name says processing. 24 listings never mention deer or game, so each carries an ask-about-venison tag. Yellow Pages rows were not checked one by one: call ahead. Checked November 9, 2026.
Asked and answered: Arkansas game processors
Does AGFC publish a list of Arkansas deer processors?
No list was found. Of the 28 rows here, 4 say deer or game outright and 24 are custom butchers or lockers to call before arriving with a deer.
When must an Arkansas deer be checked before processing?
Game Check: check deer, turkey and bear immediately (online, AGFC app or 833-289-2469) or tag first with the license/guidebook tag in ink, then check within 12 hours and write the check number on the tag. Duplicate harvest information stays with all parts until final storage.
Can a whole deer from another state come into Arkansas?
No importing or possessing any part of a deer, elk, moose, caribou or other cervid taken outside Arkansas except low-risk parts: deboned meat, antlers/clean skull plates or skulls, cleaned teeth, finished taxidermy, hides and tanned products (deer taken between the Mississippi River levees in Tennessee and Mississippi excluded).
How many Arkansas game processors can I choose from?
28 in all, from 19 counties, going by the sources on November 9, 2026.
In which Arkansas counties do game processors cluster?
Washington County accounts for 4, then come Boone County (2) and Crawford County (2).
Which AGFC region leads on game processors?
Region tallies: 9 in AGFC Region 6 (Jasper); 6 in AGFC Region 7 (Mayflower); 6 in AGFC Region 5 (Fort Smith); 3 in AGFC Region 1 (Jonesboro); 2 in AGFC Region 4 (Perrytown); 1 in AGFC Region 2 (Brinkley); 1 in AGFC Region 3 (Monticello).
What lists stand behind these Arkansas game processors?
AGFC publishes no list of deer processors, and the Arkansas Hunters Feeding the Hungry processor list could not be reached, so 25 of these rows are page-one Yellow Pages meat-processing results for Arkansas towns; 3 more come from the AGFC 2026-27 CWD participating taxidermist list because the shop name says processing. 24 listings never mention deer or game, so each carries an ask-about-venison tag. Yellow Pages rows were not checked one by one: call ahead. Checked November 9, 2026.
How many of the Arkansas game processors could be plotted?
Plotted: 26, each from a geocoded address, a store locator or an AGFC layer point. 2 have no point and appear in the list only.
Where in Arkansas would I drive farther for game processors?
Nothing turned up in 56 counties; the map shows what lies over the county line.
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