Joyce Foods, Inc.

Joyce Foods, Inc., doing business as Joyce Farms, operates a USDA-inspected establishment at 4787 Kinnamon Rd. in Winston Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, under establishment numbers M7428, P7428, and V7428. FSIS lists the plant for meat processing, poultry processing, and poultry slaughter, along with voluntary processing and voluntary slaughter for poultry and rabbit. Poultry is the species reported slaughtered under inspection. The establishment is classed as small, with a grant of inspection date on file of July 29, 2021, and a slaughter volume category of 4.0. No custom-exempt activity is reported to FSIS.

The company website presents Joyce Farms as a family-owned business founded in 1962 and now in its third generation, supplying chefs, butchers, and home cooks with poultry, beef, pork, and game raised on small farms. Products are organized into Heritage and Naked lines, both described as Nothing Added Ever, meaning no antibiotics, growth stimulants, or artificial ingredients. The site describes the facility as USDA-inspected and BRC AA certified, and blog posts reference a repeat AA BRC rating. One beef item, the Signature Angus Heritage Beef Tenderloin, is listed as GAP Step 4 certified by Global Animal Partnership and sourced from a single pasture-based farm in the Blue Ridge region.

Both a foodservice channel and a direct-to-consumer online store are described. The foodservice side includes a resource center with product sheets and marketing kits for sales representatives and resellers, plus a sales contact form. The consumer store sells frozen cases and multi-pack cuts. The website does not state whether the company accepts animals from outside farms for custom or private-label processing, and FSIS reports no custom-exempt activity, so farmers should contact the plant directly.

The Joyce Farms website operates an online store for home buyers, with items sold frozen and generally by the case or multi-pack, for example chicken in cases of eight 1 lb packs, ribeye or New York strip steaks in cases of four, and ground beef in cases of eight 1 lb packs or a 20 lb bulk case. Listed prices at the time of fetch ranged from about $44.99 for several chicken and beef items to $159.99 for a whole USDA Prime Signature Angus tenderloin and $499.99 for a cured bone-in heritage ham. Products are grouped into Heritage and Naked lines, both described as Nothing Added Ever. The site does not state retail counter hours, halves or quarters sales, or shipping terms, and stock status varies by item.

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.