Sanderson Farms, Inc. (Processing Div)

Establishment P522 is a poultry slaughter and processing plant at 1111 North Fir Ave in Collins, Covington County, Mississippi. The federal record lists the establishment as Sanderson Farms, Inc. (Processing Div), with doing-business-as names including Covington Farms, Sanderson Farms, LLC, Wayne Farms LLC, and Wayne-Sanderson Farms. FSIS records both Poultry Processing and Poultry Slaughter activities, classify the plant in the Large size class, and show a grant of inspection date on file of April 29, 2022. The reported slaughter species is poultry, and the FSIS slaughter volume category is 5.0, the highest volume band in the directory scale. No custom-exempt activity is reported.

The corporate website on file, waynesandersonfarms.com, describes Wayne-Sanderson Farms as a company formed from two poultry companies and as the nation's third-largest poultry producer, with 23 processing and prepared-foods plants, more than 26,000 employees, and about 2,000 contract family farmers across a footprint from North Carolina to Texas. The site lists retail brands including Sanderson Farms, Naked Truth, and Covington Farms, and foodservice brands including Wayne Farms, Platinum Harvest, Chef's Craft, Kosmic Krunch, Buffaloos, Fly'n Saucers, Crispy Fliers, and Harrison. The website does not state which brands or products are made at the Collins plant specifically.

This is a commercial-scale plant serving wholesale, retail-brand, and foodservice customers rather than a local processor. The sources do not describe a retail store, on-site sales, custom slaughter for individual livestock owners, cut-and-wrap service, hours, or a founding date for this location. A directory listing states Sanderson Farms was established in 1947, which refers to the company rather than to this establishment. Details beyond the federal record and the corporate website are not yet on file.

This establishment reports no custom-exempt activity to FSIS, and nothing in the sources indicates it accepts animals brought in by individual farmers or ranchers for custom slaughter or cut and wrap. The corporate website instead describes a contract growing model: Wayne-Sanderson Farms states it partners with nearly 2,000 family farms across broilers, breeders, and pullets, that about one third of its farmers are in Alabama followed by Texas, Mississippi, North Carolina, Georgia, and Arkansas, and that contracted growers receive a flock advisor, veterinarians, a technical services department, and training. The website says growers supply the land, poultry housing, and equipment, follow biosecurity practices, and that arrangements are flexible with no single defined way to partner. Booking procedures, fees, and minimums for any outside processing are not stated.

Sanderson Farms, Inc. (Processing Div) 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.

The sources do not describe a retail counter, farm store, online ordering, shipping, or sales of halves, quarters, or bundles at the Collins plant. Household buyers would encounter output from this company through grocery and foodservice channels under brands listed on the corporate site, including Sanderson Farms, Naked Truth, and Covington Farms. Whether product from this specific establishment is sold directly to consumers is not stated.

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.