Mountaire Farms is reviewing solutions to traffic flow issues on the road that near its processing plant within the growing community of Selbyville, Delaware.
According to a report from Delaware Business Now, the town council has asked the operation to resolve the issues that are a result of live haul chicken trucks backing up from one of the company’s properties to the plant.
Mountaire hired an engineering company to study traffic patterns within the area and, ultimately, offer solutions to the issue.
The company’s attorney, Mark Dunkle, recently presented the findings to the town council. The report explained that while Dunkle offered multiple options, the company's preferred option was to close the road to thru traffic.
According to the report, “Normally, when a town permanently closes a portion of a street, the ownership reverts to the property owners on either side, at no cost.” However, in this case Mountaire did offer a $1 million donation to go with this solution.
The company requested that the town council create a committee to generate their own resolutions and negotiate final decisions. The town council agreed.
According to the WATTAgNet Top Poultry Companies Database, Mountaire Farms Inc., based in Millsboro, Delaware, is a family owned and operated vertically integrated poultry company founded in 1914. It operates in Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina and Arkansas, and its products are sold regionally, nationally and internationally. It employs 8,259. Mountaire produced 48.48 million pounds of ready-to-cook chicken on a weekly basis in 2017, an increase of 1.85 million pounds – or about 4 percent – from 2016.
Other Mountaire donations
In January the company accounced that it was helping bring back the Spring Chicken Festival in Siler City, North Carolina with a $15,000 donation to the Parks and Recreation Department.
The Chicken Festival began in the late 1980s as a celebration of food, music, arts and crafts and was hosted by the Chamber of Commerce. It was discontinued sometime after the year 2000 due to declining resources.
