Harpley's Meat Packing Inc.

Harpley's Meat Packing Inc., doing business as Randolph Packing Company, operates at 403 West Balfour Ave. in Asheboro, Randolph County, North Carolina. The federal record lists establishment number M6590 with FSIS activities of meat slaughter and meat processing, a grant of inspection dated September 10, 2019, and a small size class. Cattle is the only species reported slaughtered under inspection. The plant is listed in FSIS slaughter volume category 3.0, above the smallest category, which covers plants under 1,000 head per year. No custom-exempt activity is reported to FSIS.

The company website describes two brands: Randolph Packing Company as a USDA beef packer and Harpley's as a USDA beef processor. It states that beef products are shipped nationwide for further processing. The company also reports operating a cattle farm of more than 800 acres in central North Carolina and working to build a network of producers raising cattle for its distribution. A separate nonprofit, Harpley's Helps Foundation, is described as a 501(c)3 distributing meat and other goods to people in need in central North Carolina, statewide, and nationwide.

The website's history page states that Harpley's grew out of a taxidermy and wild game business started in Asheboro in April 2021 by Burnie and Jamie, whose surnames Harper and Crumley form the company name. It reports the company became a state-inspected beef processor in 2023, a USDA-inspected processing plant by mid 2024, and received a North Carolina Agriculture Manufacturing and Processing Initiative grant of more than $600,000 in late 2024. In August 2025 the owner purchased Randolph Packing Company, Inc., in business since 1947 and started by the Hamlet family, described on the site as a third-generation business ranked in the Top 30 beef packers in the United States. The site states renovations and added equipment at the Randolph Packing location are planned for completion by mid to late 2026. Details on custom slaughter for individual farm customers, retail sales, or cut and wrap options for private customers are not stated on the website and are not yet on file.

The federal record lists this establishment for meat slaughter and meat processing with cattle as the only species slaughtered under inspection, and reports no custom-exempt activity. The website presents the operation as a beef packer and processor whose products ship nationwide for further processing, and states the company runs its own cattle farm of more than 800 acres and wants to build a network of producers raising cattle for its distribution. Terms for hauling animals here, including booking, minimums, hanging weight fees, kill dates, or cut and wrap sheets, are not stated in the sources and are not yet on file. Farmers should contact the plant at (336) 672-1470 to ask what arrangements, if any, are available as listed.

Harpley's Meat Packing 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.

The sources do not describe a retail counter, halves or quarters, bundles, delivery, shipping to consumers, or online ordering from the Asheboro packing plant. The website says beef products are shipped nationwide for further processing rather than sold direct. Households in central North Carolina may find the company's wild game side relevant: Harpley's Deer Processing at 467 E Dorsett Ave in Asheboro lists a $130 basic deer package with add-on sausage, cubed steak, summer sausage, snack sticks, and jerky at stated per-pound prices with 5 to 20 pound minimums, and states it cannot accept deer from CWD counties unless completely deboned.

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.