Mountaire Farms

Mountaire Farms is a family-owned agricultural food production company founded in 1914 and now the fourth-largest chicken company in the United States. The company operates a fully integrated poultry business spanning grain elevators, feed mills, hatcheries, and processing plants, producing nearly 3 billion pounds of chicken a year and supplying wholesale, retail, and international markets.

Its industrial footprint covers five states - Arkansas, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina - and employs over 10,000 people. Operations range from grain handling and feed milling to poultry processing and resource recovery, including a Resource Recovery Plant in Millsboro, Delaware. Products are exported to over 60 countries.

Technical domains at Mountaire include poultry processing, grain elevator operations, feed milling, hatchery operations, resource recovery, and environmental stewardship. The company states commitments to animal welfare and environmental stewardship, and gives to the communities it serves through the Meals for Thousands programme.

Mountaire remains privately held and family-run. Guy Cameron founded the business in 1914; Ronnie Cameron serves as Chairman of the Board. The company describes itself as guided by the Mountaire Creed, with stated emphases on quality, honesty, personal growth, and stewardship.