Peco Foods, Inc.

Peco Foods, Inc., doing business as Peco Foods, Inc.- Canton Division, operates a poultry plant at 1039 West Fulton St in Canton, Madison County, Mississippi, under FSIS establishment number P890. The federal record lists poultry slaughter and poultry processing activities, poultry as the species slaughtered under inspection, a size class of Large, a slaughter volume category of 5.0, and a grant of inspection date on file of 2022-01-07. No custom-exempt activity is reported to FSIS, so the establishment is not listed as doing custom work for individual owners of animals.

Peco Foods is headquartered in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Its website describes a fourth-generation, family-owned poultry company founded in 1937 by John Herman Hickman, with more than 7,500 team members and 20 facilities across the Southeast, operating a vertically integrated model from hatch to harvest. The company history states that Peco added live and processing operations in Canton, Mississippi, in 1996 and opened a second Canton facility on Fulton Street in 1998, followed by a third Canton facility on Feather Lane in 1999.

The company website is oriented to commercial buyers rather than to individual farmers or households. It names procurement, research and development, and sales contacts serving further processors, distributors, foodservice operators, quick-service restaurants, casual dining, retail supermarkets, clubs, specialty stores, and international markets. A secondary news report indicates Peco Foods plans to close its Brooksville and Canton facilities and its Philadelphia hatchery in Mississippi; that report is not confirmed by the federal record on file, which still lists this establishment. Details beyond the federal record and the corporate website are not yet on file.

The federal record reports no custom-exempt activity at this establishment, and neither the website nor the search material describes custom slaughter or per-head processing for outside owners of animals. The company describes a vertically integrated model and a long history of contract growing, in which Peco supplies chicks, feed, and a market while farmers supply housing and labor. Growers interested in that arrangement would need to contact the company directly; specific booking, minimums, fees, and cut and wrap terms are not stated in the sources.

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.