Mar-Jac Poultry-AL

Mar-Jac Poultry-AL operates a poultry slaughter and processing establishment at 3301 3rd Avenue in Jasper, Walker County, Alabama. The plant holds federal establishment number P1307 with a grant of inspection date on file of May 2, 2022. FSIS lists its activities as poultry slaughter and poultry processing, classifies the plant as large, and records a slaughter volume category of 5.0. No custom-exempt activity is reported to FSIS.

The company website describes Mar-Jac Poultry as a fully integrated poultry production company headquartered in Gainesville, Georgia, founded in 1954 by brothers Marvin and Jack McKibbon to serve a cooperative of Northeast Georgia growers. A growers' marketing cooperative purchased the plant in 1962, and the company was consolidated under its current ownership in 1984. The site says the company ships poultry products worldwide with an emphasis on the domestic foodservice industry, and that production grew from 450,000 birds per week in the 1980s to 2,000,000 birds per week today at the Gainesville, Georgia processing plant.

The Alabama operation described on the website includes the Jasper processing plant, a feed mill and hatchery in Spruce Pine, Alabama, and a truck shop in Haleyville and Jasper. The website's process page describes company hatchery, feed mill, and contract grower operations located in Georgia rather than Alabama, so the Alabama supply chain detail is not fully spelled out. This is a large integrated foodservice supplier, and the sources do not describe a retail counter, custom processing for individual farmers, or direct sales to households.

The sources do not describe custom or custom-exempt processing for individual farmers, and FSIS reports no custom-exempt activity at this establishment. Mar-Jac describes itself as a fully integrated company that raises pullets, operates breeder and broiler farms, hatchery and feed mill operations, and works with contract growers, with a field specialist assigned to each farm for safety and quality program compliance. A producer interested in a contract grower relationship or any other arrangement would need to contact the company directly at (205) 387-1441.

Mar-Jac Poultry-AL operates under a federal grant of inspection, so product from this plant can be sold anywhere in the United States, which matters if you sell online or across a state line. FSIS does not list a custom-exempt activity for this plant.

No retail counter, halves or quarters, bundles, online ordering, delivery, or shipping to households is described in the sources. The company states its emphasis is the domestic foodservice industry, with products shipped worldwide, and names fine dining establishments and fast food restaurants as customers.

If you are buying a half or quarter animal, the plant is where the animal is processed; the farm sells you the animal. Read how to buy a half cow for the sequence and the math.