Thompson Farms Country Cured Meats

Thompson Farms Country Cured Meats, doing business as Thompson Farms, is a USDA-inspected establishment at 2538 Dixie Rd in Dixie, Brooks County, Georgia. It holds meat and poultry establishment numbers M31999 and P31999 and is listed with FSIS for both meat slaughter and meat processing. FSIS classifies the plant as small, with a grant of inspection date on file of March 29, 2021. Species detail is not reported to FSIS. The plant reports retail-exempt sales and does not report custom-exempt activity.

The website describes a vertically integrated family business that raises, harvests, processes, and sells its own pork. The company states it raises pigs on pasture from farrow to finish, using breeds including Duroc, Berkshire, and, more recently, Iberico, with rotational grazing and NonGMO grain. Harvest and processing take place in the federally inspected facility on the farm. The site says the business has produced pork for retail and wholesale, locally and across the U.S., for the last two decades, and that products are sold online, at a shop on the farm, at the family's Herd and Passel meat shop in Thomasville, and through Whole Foods Market in the Florida, South, and Mid Atlantic regions.

The site states the pork is raised with no antibiotics or steroids and on an all vegetarian NonGMO diet, that it is certified NonGMO by the NonGMO Project, and that the operation is Animal Welfare certified by Global Animal Partnership. Beyond the pork program, the online store lists category tabs for beef and poultry, and the Thomasville shop is described as selling its own beef and local chicken alongside Thompson Farms pork. Details on services to outside livestock owners are limited to what appears on the contact page.

The federal record lists this establishment for meat slaughter and meat processing under inspection, and no custom-exempt activity is reported to FSIS. The website presents the plant as an on-farm facility used to harvest and process pork raised on the company's own farms, and does not describe booking, minimums, kill dates, or cut and wrap fees for outside livestock. The contact page does invite calls at (229) 263-9074 for questions pertaining to processing, special cuts, and whole hogs, so a producer would need to call to learn whether outside animals are taken and on what terms. Nothing further about services to outside farmers is on file.

Thompson Farms Country Cured Meats 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.

Households can order online for shipping, and the site states it ships to GA, FL, AL, MS, LA, SC, NC, TN, KY, VA, OH, and PA, with orders placed after Thursday at 4:00pm shipping the following Tuesday. There is a small retail shop at the farm in Dixie, Georgia, and retail pickup in Dixie can be arranged by phone. Products are also sold at Herd and Passel, a farm direct meat shop at the Thomasville Farmers' Market at 502 Smith Avenue, Thomasville, Georgia, which carries the pork along with its own beef and local chicken. The site also says products reach Whole Foods Market stores in the Florida, South, and Mid Atlantic regions, with availability varying by store. Individual cuts are priced per package online, for example fresh pork belly averaging 10 lbs whole and 5 lbs half; halves and quarters of animals are not described. Some items are listed as backordered.

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.