Amick Farms LLC.

Amick Farms LLC, doing business as Amick Farms, operates under USDA FSIS establishment number P7987 at Batesburg, South Carolina, in Saluda County. The federal record lists the plant's activities as poultry slaughter and poultry processing, with poultry as the species slaughtered under inspection. FSIS classes the establishment as large and assigns it slaughter volume category 5.0, the top of the reported range. The grant of inspection date on file is March 24, 2021. No custom-exempt activity is reported to FSIS.

The company website describes Amick Farms as founded in June 1941 in Batesburg by A.D. "Chick" Amick, who began with one chicken house, a wood-fired wash pot and 500 baby chicks and delivered fresh-dressed chicken packed in barrels of ice. His son Bill Amick modernized the business in 1972. In August 2006, OSI Group acquired the company. The website states the company now has more than 3,700 team members, more than 500 family farm partners, and four integrated poultry production complexes located in Batesburg and Ward, South Carolina, Hurlock, Maryland, and Laurel, Mississippi, producing over 1.4 billion pounds of chicken products annually and distributing in more than 40 states to retail, foodservice and industrial markets. The website says onsite USDA inspectors provide inspection oversight.

Address and phone details differ between records. The plant's FSIS listing gives 2079 Batesburg Hwy and (803) 552-1400, while the website gives 7155 Batesburg Highway, a local number of (803) 532-1400, a toll free number of (800) 926-4251, and instructs all trucks to report to 6431 Spann Road, Batesburg. The website describes an integrated operation covering feed milling, hatcheries, contract broiler growing and processing. Nothing in the sources describes a retail store, custom processing for individual livestock owners, or direct sales to households, and details beyond the federal record and the company website are not yet on file.

The plant reports no custom-exempt activity to FSIS, and nothing in the sources indicates it processes animals brought in by individual farmers or ranchers. The website instead describes contract relationships with independent growers: it lists pullet, breeder and broiler farm opportunities at chickenfarmer@amickfarms.com and crop opportunities for wheat, barley and corn at cropfarmer@amickfarms.com, and states that facilities are in South Carolina, North Carolina and the Delmarva Peninsula. The website says chicks from company hatcheries are placed with family farm partners who raise them to company animal welfare standards, with feed supplied from company mills and support from a veterinarian and field technician. Trucks are directed to report to 6431 Spann Road, Batesburg. No booking process, minimums, fees, or cut and wrap terms are stated because the plant is not described as offering custom processing.

Amick Farms 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.

No retail counter, farm store, halves or quarters, bundles, online ordering, delivery or shipping to households is mentioned in the sources. The website describes products distributed in more than 40 states through retail, foodservice and industrial channels, and directs those interested in becoming a distributor of Amick Farms fresh chicken to call or submit the contact form for a sales representative. Household buyers would encounter the brand at retail rather than at the plant, as listed.

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.