Parks Family Meats, LLC

Parks Family Meats, LLC operates a USDA-inspected hog slaughter and meat processing plant at 1618 Hwy 24 & 50 in Warsaw, Duplin County, North Carolina. The establishment carries FSIS establishment number M18296A, with a grant of inspection date on file of November 28, 2017. FSIS lists the plant as small, with activities of meat slaughter and meat processing, hogs as the species slaughtered under inspection, and a slaughter volume category of 3.0. No custom-exempt activity is reported to FSIS.

The plant is described on the website of The Parks Companies, a swine marketing, transportation, trailer wash, and finishing building business that began in livestock marketing in 1976 and expanded into North Carolina in 1995. The company entered harvest and processing to add value for the producers it serves. Parks Family Meats is presented there as a premium roaster pig harvest plant that sells into a wide range of markets and provides an outlet for lights and BBQ pigs. The website states the operation has grown from its establishment in 2000 into a supplier to the roasting pig market with domestic sales to many major cities and exports to the Caribbean. One secondary business directory lists a founding year of 1995, which differs from the 2000 date given on the company website.

Plant specifications listed by the company include a USDA-inspected 15,000 square foot facility with a capacity of 400 head per day, with US Cold Storage blast freezing and maintaining inventory. Roaster pigs are offered in weight ranges from 10 pounds to 150 pounds, fresh or frozen, individually boxed or in combos, for wholesale or retail distribution. The website notes that custom processing is available and that specialty products can be produced. Retail counter hours, pricing, and booking procedures are not stated in the sources on file.

The plant is a hog slaughter and processing establishment operating under FSIS inspection as establishment M18296A, with a stated capacity of 400 head per day in a 15,000 square foot facility. The company describes the harvest and processing business as a way to add value for the producers it serves, and states that Parks Family Meats provides an outlet for lights and BBQ pigs and offers custom processing with specialty products available. Species other than hogs are not reported to FSIS for slaughter, and no custom-exempt activity is reported. Booking procedures, scheduling lead times, minimums, kill fees, and cut and wrap charges are not stated in the sources on file. The listed plant contacts are Kevin Krum, (910) 290-0075, and plant supervisor Albino Cardoso, (910) 284-2354; the plant phone is (910) 293-4614.

Parks Family Meats, LLC 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 company states that roaster pigs are distributed at wholesale or retail, in weight ranges from 10 pounds to 150 pounds, fresh or frozen, individually boxed or in combos, with domestic sales to many major cities and exports to the Caribbean. Whether there is a walk-in retail counter at the Warsaw plant, and whether halves, quarters, bundles, online ordering, delivery, or shipping to households are available, is not stated in the sources on file. Interested buyers would need to contact the plant directly at (910) 293-4614.

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.