Pitman Farms

Pitman Farms operates a poultry establishment at 1001 E Smith St in California, Missouri, in Moniteau County. The plant is listed in the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service directory under establishment number P961, with FSIS activities of poultry slaughter and poultry processing and a grant of inspection date on file of June 3, 2019. FSIS classifies the establishment as small and assigns it slaughter volume category 4.0, well above the smallest category, which begins at under 1,000 head per year. Poultry is the only species reported as slaughtered under inspection, and no custom-exempt activity is reported to FSIS.

The website on file, pitmangrain.com, belongs to Pitman Family Farms and publishes cash bids and grain prices for elevator locations, including a location page for California, Missouri. That site addresses corn and soybean delivery and pricing rather than meat processing, so it does not describe the poultry plant's services. A trade press item indexed in search reports that Pitman purchased a turkey plant in California, Missouri, and that Honeysuckle White turkey products were produced there. LocalMeat.org has not verified that account against a first-party source.

Details beyond the federal record are not yet on file. No retail counter, custom booking process, price list, cut and wrap options, or hours for the meat plant appear in the available material. Farmers and households seeking those details should contact the establishment directly using the phone number in the FSIS record, (559) 904-0484.

The FSIS record shows poultry slaughter and poultry processing under federal inspection at this address, with poultry the only species reported. No custom-exempt activity is reported, which means the sources do not indicate custom kill or private-use processing for individual growers. Booking procedures, minimum bird counts, scheduling windows, and fees are not stated in any source on file. A grower considering hauling birds here would need to confirm scope and availability directly by phone.

Pitman Farms 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.