House of Raeford Farms Inc.

House of Raeford Farms Inc. operates establishment P1309 at 1354 Rutherford Rd. in Greenville, South Carolina. The federal record lists the plant under poultry slaughter and poultry processing, with poultry as the species slaughtered under inspection. FSIS classifies the establishment as large and records a slaughter volume category of 5.0, the top of the reported scale. The grant of inspection date on file is April 3, 2020. No custom-exempt activity is reported.

The company website describes House of Raeford Farms as a family-owned and family-operated enterprise headquartered in Rose Hill, North Carolina, with a corporate office at P.O. Box 699, Rose Hill, NC 28458, and a corporate phone of 910-289-3191. The site traces the business to 1925, when Mary Sue Johnson began raising turkeys in her backyard, and describes five generations of family involvement across an integrated business that includes hatcheries, feed mills, farms, and plants. Product lines named on the site are fresh chicken and further processed chicken, and the brands listed are House of Raeford, Speedy Bird, and Filet Of Chicken.

The website presents sales channels aimed at commercial buyers, including a Foods Division for further processed chicken sales, foodservice, retail, export, and school nutrition. It also advertises online pre-order chicken sales with pay-in-advance ordering and loading into the buyer's car, though the site does not tie that program to a specific plant location. Details specific to the Greenville facility, beyond the federal record, are not on file. Nothing in the sources indicates whether the plant takes in animals from outside producers.

The federal record lists P1309 for poultry slaughter and poultry processing at a large size class, with no custom-exempt activity reported. The website describes a vertically integrated company that raises its own birds through its own hatcheries, feed mills, and farms, and does not mention custom or toll processing for outside growers. Farmers should contact the company directly to learn whether any outside work is accepted, as no such service is stated in the sources.

House of Raeford Farms Inc. 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 website advertises online pre-order chicken sales, described as pay in advance with staff loading the order into the buyer's car, and directs shoppers to a Preorder Chicken Sales schedule page. The sources do not state that these sales occur at the Greenville plant, and no retail counter hours, half or quarter bundles, shipping, or delivery to households are described for this location. A separate site, houseofraeford.store, is referenced in search results but its offerings are not detailed in the material on file.

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.