INFOGRAPHIC: 7 new broiler plants to begin operations

U.S. broiler production will increase greatly over the next two years, as seven new plants will be coming online.

Image by Jennifer Keller
Image by Jennifer Keller

U.S. broiler production will increase greatly over the next two years, as seven new plants will be coming online.

Each plant will be operated by a different company. Of those seven plants, five will be new facilities to add to the nation’s overall production, one will be a rebuild of a previous plant that was destroyed by a fire, while the other will be a closed facility that is being refurbished in order for it to return to production.

The infographic shown below displays what companies will be starting new plants, as well as where those facilities will be located. Further information about each plant can be seen below the infographic.

7 New Broiler Plants To Being Operations Infographic

Image by Jennifer Keller

House of Raeford Farms

House of Raeford Farms new plant will be the first to begin production. It replaces the poultry plant in Teachey, North Carolina, which was destroyed by a fire.

The plant has been constructed, and was reported earlier in September to be in “start-up mode.” However, that process was delayed due to power outages due to Hurricane Florence. An announcement concerning its opening is expected to come within the coming weeks.

The plant’s processing capacity will be revealed when that announcement is made, a company spokesman said.

Sanderson Farms

Sanderson Farms expects to begin production at its newest facility in the early part of 2019. When the company announced its plans to open the facility in Tyler, Texas, it revealed that it will process about 1.2 million birds per week, and will have an annual output of around 375 million pounds of dressed chicken when it reaches full production.

Simmons Foods

Simmons Foods in June broke ground on its facility being constructed in Benton County, Arkansas.

Scheduled to open in 2019, the new plant will produce fresh and frozen chicken products to retail and restaurant companies. At the time the company announced its plans to build, it stated that the plant would have the capacity to sell about 850 million pounds of poultry meat annually.

Lincoln Premium Poultry

Lincoln Premium Poultry is a new company that presently does not have any plants in operation, but construction is progressing for its first facility, which will be located in Fremont, Nebraska.

Lincoln Premium Poultry is partly owned by Costco Wholesale Corporation and was created to process chicken for Costco. It is expected that about 40 percent of Costco’s fresh chicken meat.

The average size of the birds to be processed is 6 pounds, 4 ounces. By late 2019, the plant will be processing about 2 million chickens per week, the company projected.

Tyson Foods

Tyson Foods is building a new facility in Humboldt, Tennessee. The plant will produce pre-packaged trays of fresh chicken for retail grocery stores nationwide. It is expected to process 1.25 million birds per week.

Ground was broken on the new facility in May. The company anticipates that the plant will open in late 2019.

Bell & Evans

Bell & Evans is building a new poultry plant in Fredericksburg, Pennsylvania, with expectations that the facility will open in 2020.

The plant is expected to process 2.6 million chickens weekly. The breed of chickens to be raised for processing at the facility is Das Klassenbester, a breed that the company refers to as a slower-growing, higher-welfare breed.

Mountaire Farms

Mountaire Farms is in the process of renovating a poultry plant formerly owned by Townsend’s in Siler City, North Carolina.

According to a Herald-Sun report, the facility is expected to open in 2019 and will process 250,000 chickens daily.

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