Perdue Foods, LLC.

Perdue Foods, LLC. operates a poultry plant at 416 S. Long Drive in Rockingham, Richmond County, North Carolina, under FSIS establishment number P1243. The federal record lists poultry slaughter and poultry processing activities, a large size class, and a grant of inspection date on file of January 20, 2021. The plant reports poultry as the species slaughtered under inspection and falls in FSIS slaughter volume category 5.0, the highest volume band in the directory. No custom exempt activity is reported.

The establishment record lists numerous brand names used at this location, including Carolina Fare, Cookin Good, Greenwise, Harvestland, Nature's Promise, Open Nature, Perdue, Shenandoah, Shoreline, Sprout's, and Trader Joe's, indicating production for both Perdue labels and retailer labels. The website on file is the corporate Perdue Farms site rather than a page for the Rockingham plant, so the descriptions of company history, farmer programs, and consumer products below come from the parent company and are not specific to establishment P1243.

Perdue Farms describes itself as a fourth generation, family owned American food and agriculture business in operation for more than 100 years, tracing back to a chicken farm started by Arthur Perdue in Salisbury, Maryland, in 1920. The company states its chickens are fed a 100 percent USDA-certified vegetarian diet with no animal by-products and that its animals are raised with no antibiotics ever and no added hormones or steroids, noting that federal regulations already prohibit hormones and steroids in poultry and pork. Plant-level details for Rockingham, such as tour access, local sales, or contract terms, are not on file beyond the federal record.

The company website states that the brands of Perdue Farms work with family farmers and ranchers, including poultry, cattle, sheep, and hog producers, who must follow a specific set of farming protocols to raise livestock for its brands, and it points growers to pages on how its brands choose farmers and on support programs. This is a company level description and does not confirm anything about grower contracting at the Rockingham plant. The federal record reports no custom exempt activity at establishment P1243, so this is not a plant that lists custom slaughter or cut and wrap for individual farm customers. Booking procedures, minimums, and fees are not stated in the sources.

Perdue Foods, 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.

There is no retail counter described at the Rockingham address in the sources. Perdue Farms sells chicken, pork, beef, lamb, and prepared items through its national website, with product listings by category and price, bulk bundles, and filters for organic, free range, gluten free, fully cooked, and non-GMO. The site states orders ship on Tuesdays and Wednesdays via UPS, that orders placed before 9 a.m. Eastern on Sunday, Monday, or Tuesday are targeted for approximate Friday delivery, and that shipping is free on orders over 300 dollars. Products are described as frozen and vacuum packed. Whether any item sold online originates from establishment P1243 is not stated.

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.