Stripling's General Store Inc.

Stripling's General Store Inc. operates a USDA-inspected establishment at 1401 West Boulevard in Moultrie, Colquitt County, Georgia, under establishment numbers M8404 and P8404. FSIS lists the plant for meat processing, meat slaughter, and poultry processing, classes it as small, and shows a grant of inspection dated July 27, 2021. Hogs are the only species reported slaughtered under inspection, and the plant falls in FSIS slaughter volume category 1.0, meaning under 1,000 head per year. No custom-exempt activity is reported to FSIS.

The company describes itself as a family business dating to 1964, when James Stripling opened a butcher shop on the family farm that locals called the Sausage Kitchen. The website traces later steps: Jack and Ricky Hardin continuing the business in 1978, a move to Cordele and expansion into a 9,000 square foot general store in 1991, the introduction of Stripling's Beef Jerky in 1995, and a third generation, Lindsay, Ashley, and Clint, joining in 2005. The Moultrie site is described as the company's USDA processing facility, with retail stores in Cordele, Perry, and Bogart. Search text also references a small retail space at the Moultrie facility open to the public carrying select Stripling's merchandise.

The website states that whole hogs are processed in-house for the company's whole-hog country sausage, made in small batches and smoked. Products are sold online with nationwide shipping to United States addresses, through a wholesale program the company says reaches more than 300 retail partners, and through a corporate gifting program. The site does not describe custom slaughter or cut-and-wrap work for individual livestock owners, which is consistent with the absence of custom-exempt activity in the federal record.

Households can order online at striplings.com, and the company says it ships refrigerated nationwide from the Moultrie facility to United States addresses only, with Canada described as not yet available. Listed items include sausage, smoked links, smoked and stuffed pork chops, ham, beef and pork jerky, and gift boxes, with posted prices such as $8.29 for a 1 lb fresh pan sausage, $12.99 for four smoked pork chops, and gift boxes from $39.99. Retail stores are listed in Cordele (two locations), Perry, and Bogart, and search text mentions a small retail space open to the public at the Moultrie plant. Halves, quarters, or bulk freezer beef or pork bundles are not mentioned 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.