Peco Foods, Inc

Peco Foods, Inc., doing business as Peco Farms Inc, operates establishment P6510 at 95 Commerce Dr. in Bay Springs, Jasper County, Mississippi. The FSIS directory lists the plant for poultry slaughter and poultry processing, with poultry as the species slaughtered under inspection. FSIS classifies the establishment as Large and records a slaughter volume category of 5.0, the highest bracket in the scale used in the federal record. The grant of inspection date on file is May 3, 2022. No custom-exempt activity is reported for this establishment.

Peco Foods describes itself as a fourth-generation, family-owned poultry company headquartered in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, with more than 7,500 team members and 20 facilities across the Southeast, operating in Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas. The company site says it was founded in 1937 by John Herman Hickman and grew from a small hatchery and feed mill into one of the largest poultry producers in the United States. Its history page states that Peco expanded into Mississippi in 1989, acquiring and renovating a processing facility and building live production infrastructure including a feed mill in Bay Springs. The company describes a vertically integrated model covering hatch through harvest and further processing.

The company's contact page directs buyers to procurement, sales and research and development teams serving further processors, distributors, foodservice operators, quick-service and casual restaurants, retail supermarkets, clubs, specialty stores and international markets. Peco lists conventional, no antibiotics ever (NAE) and vegetarian-fed programs. The company website does not describe retail sales, custom or private-lot processing, or hours at the Bay Springs address, and details specific to establishment P6510 beyond the federal record are not yet on file.

The federal record reports no custom-exempt activity at this establishment, and neither the FSIS listing nor the company website describes custom slaughter, private-lot processing, booking procedures, minimums, fees, or cut and wrap for individual producers at Bay Springs. Peco's own history describes a contract grower model in which the company supplies chicks and feed while farmers provide housing and labor, and the company operates grain purchasing at Bay Springs, but the website does not state current grower recruitment or intake terms for this plant. Producers with poultry to process should contact the plant directly at (601) 764-4392 to confirm what work, if any, is accepted.

Peco Foods, Inc 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, freezer sales, halves or quarters, bundles, online ordering, delivery or shipping is described for this location in the federal record or on the company website. Peco Foods presents itself as a wholesale supplier to further processors, distributors, foodservice operators, supermarkets, clubs, specialty stores and export markets, so its products are more likely to reach households through retail and restaurant channels than through direct sale at the plant.

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.