Perdue Foods LLC

Perdue Foods LLC operates establishment P18285 at 2047 Hwy 9 W in Dillon, South Carolina, in Dillon County. The federal record lists the plant for poultry slaughter and poultry processing under USDA FSIS inspection, with a grant of inspection date on file of July 21, 2021. FSIS classifies the establishment as large and places it in slaughter volume category 5.0, the highest of the reported categories. Poultry is the only species reported as slaughtered under inspection. No custom-exempt activity is reported, so the plant is not listed as doing custom work for individual owners.

The establishment operates under several brand names recorded with FSIS: Coleman Natural, Draper Valley, Harvestland, and Shenandoah Products. The corporate website, perduefarms.com, describes Perdue Farms as a fourth-generation, family owned and privately held American food and agriculture business in operation for more than 100 years, tracing 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 animals raised for its brands are never treated with antibiotics, steroids, or hormones, noting that federal regulations already prohibit hormones and steroids in pork and poultry.

The website is a national direct-to-consumer store and company presence rather than a page for this Dillon facility. It does not state hours, retail counter operations, or processing arrangements specific to establishment P18285. Search results list a Perdue Farms address at 2725 Highway 9 W in Dillon with the same phone number, while the FSIS record gives 2047 Hwy 9 W. Details beyond the federal record and the corporate website are not yet on file.

The federal record reports no custom-exempt activity at this establishment, and neither the FSIS listing nor the website describes booking, drop-off, minimums, or cut and wrap services for farmers hauling their own animals here. The corporate 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 set of farming protocols to raise livestock for the company's brands, and it points to pages on how its brands choose farmers and on support programs. Growers or producers interested in that arrangement would need to contact the company directly. Nothing in the sources indicates the Dillon plant takes in animals from the general public.

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, halves and quarters program, or on-site sales described for the Dillon plant in the sources. Perdue Farms sells frozen chicken, pork, lamb, and beef nationally through perduefarms.com, with individual trays and packs as well as bulk bundles and freezer filler assortments. The site states orders ship on Tuesdays and Wednesdays via UPS, that orders placed before 9 a.m. ET Sunday, Monday, or Tuesday are targeted for approximate Friday delivery, and that shipping is free on orders over $300. The company says products are frozen and vacuum packed and that orders are packed in recyclable shipping materials. Prices shown on the site at the time of capture ranged from about $14.99 for a 1.25-pound tray to about $199.95 regular price for a 15-pound bulk chicken breast bundle. Products fetched from the site were shown as out of stock, and the site is national, so it is not clear that items sold there come from this specific establishment.

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.