Mountaire Farms Inc.

Mountaire Farms Inc., doing business as Mountaire Farms of North Carolina Corp., operates a USDA-inspected establishment at 1101 East Third Street in Siler City, Chatham County, North Carolina. The federal record lists establishment numbers M1234 and P1234 with meat processing, poultry processing, and poultry slaughter activities, a grant of inspection date on file of September 14, 2020, and a size class of Large. Poultry is the only species reported as slaughtered under inspection, and the plant is in the highest FSIS slaughter volume category, 5.0. No custom-exempt activity is reported to FSIS.

The company website describes Mountaire Farms as an agricultural food production and processing company with almost 10,000 employees at facilities in Arkansas, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina, and states it is the fourth largest chicken company in the United States, producing about 3 billion pounds of chicken per year. The site says the company was founded in 1914 by Guy Cameron, that his son Ted and grandson Ronnie followed him into the business, that Ronnie remains Chairman of the Board, and that the company is still family owned. A June 2026 company post states Amanda Irwin was promoted to President and Chief Executive Officer.

Company materials describe hand-deboned jumbo bird operations in Delaware and North Carolina shipping fresh and frozen product to 46 states daily, plus retail tray pack private label programs and export to more than 60 countries. Packaging options named include combo bins, bulk pack, and exact weight sealed and bar-coded bags. The website is corporate and does not describe a retail store, farm-gate custom slaughter, or direct sales to households at the Siler City plant. Details beyond the federal record and these corporate pages are not yet on file.