Swaggerty Sausage Company, Inc.

Swaggerty Sausage Company, Inc. operates at 2827 Swaggerty Road Suite 1 in Kodak, Sevier County, Tennessee, under USDA FSIS establishment numbers M8314 and V8314. The federal record lists the plant for meat slaughter and meat processing, with hogs as the species slaughtered under inspection, and classifies it as a large establishment. The grant of inspection date on file is July 15, 2021. FSIS records the plant in slaughter volume category 4.0, well above the smallest category of under 1,000 head per year. The company also does business under the names Smoky Farms and Swaggerty Sausage.

The company's website presents the business as Swaggerty's Farm and describes premium pork breakfast sausage as its main line. Secondary listings and the company's own about page place its origins on a Sevier County farm in Kodak, where Lonas Swaggerty made sausage, and cite 1930 as the founding year. Beyond that, the fetched website text was largely page code rather than readable content, so product lists, ordering details, and plant policies are not on file here.

No custom-exempt activity is reported to FSIS, which means the plant is not recorded as processing animals for individual owners under the custom exemption. The plant does report retail-exempt sales. Buyers and producers should contact the company directly at (865) 933-2625 to confirm what it takes in and what it sells, since availability and terms are not stated in the sources.

FSIS lists this establishment for hog slaughter and meat processing at a large-plant scale, in slaughter volume category 4.0. No custom-exempt activity is reported, so the federal record gives no indication that the plant processes animals for individual owners under a custom exemption. Whether it buys or takes in hogs from outside producers, and on what booking terms, is not stated in the sources. Producers should call (865) 933-2625 to ask.

Swaggerty Sausage Company, 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 company markets under the Swaggerty's Farm name and describes premium pork breakfast sausage as its product focus. The plant reports retail-exempt sales to FSIS. The sources on file do not state whether there is a retail counter at the Kodak location, whether halves or quarters are sold, or whether online ordering, shipping, or delivery is offered.

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.