Foster Poultry Farms, LLC

Foster Poultry Farms, LLC, doing business as Sunland Poultry Co, operates at 843 Davis St. in Livingston, Merced County, California. The plant holds establishment numbers M6137 and P6137 and is listed with FSIS for poultry slaughter and poultry processing, with a grant of inspection date on file of September 7, 2021. FSIS classifies the plant in its large size category, and its reported slaughter volume category is 5.0 on a scale where 1 represents fewer than 1,000 head per year. No custom-exempt activity is reported to FSIS, which indicates the establishment is not listed as processing animals for return to individual owners.

The website on file, fosterfarms.com, is the consumer brand site for Foster Farms rather than a page for this specific plant. It describes fresh chicken, frozen chicken, refrigerated fully cooked chicken, corn dogs, franks and deli meats, and ready-to-eat items sold at grocery retailers, with product claims including no antibiotics ever, 100% all natural, free range, gluten free, no added hormones or steroids, and organic lines. The company site states that Max and Verda Foster started a poultry farm in California's Central Valley in 1939, that turkeys were followed by chickens in the 1950s, and that the first Livingston processing facility opened in 1959.

Buyers should note the naming difference in the record: the federal directory lists the operator as Foster Poultry Farms, LLC with the trade name Sunland Poultry Co, while the website presents the Foster Farms consumer brand. The federal record lists a plant phone of (781) 605-9934; the website lists a general consumer and product safety line of 1-800-255-7227. Details on plant-level sales, tours, or on-site pickup are not yet on file.

The company website directs shoppers to grocery retailers through a where to buy tool rather than to a plant counter. Products described include fresh chicken, frozen uncooked and fully cooked chicken, corn dogs, franks and deli meats, with labeled attributes such as no antibiotics ever, 100% all natural, free range, gluten free and organic. No retail store at the Livingston plant, halves or quarters, bundles, shipping, or online ordering is stated in the sources.

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.