Mountaire Farms

Mountaire Farms is a family-owned, vertically integrated poultry and agricultural food production company founded in 1914 in Arkansas as a small commercial feed business. It has since grown into the fourth-largest chicken company in the United States, producing nearly 3 billion pounds of fresh chicken a year for wholesale, retail, and international markets, and employing more than 10,000 people across five states: Arkansas, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina.

Operations span the full supply chain. The company runs grain elevators, feed mills, hatcheries and poultry processing plants, and it manufactures commercial animal feed at its own mills. Its products reach customers in over 60 countries. A Resource Recovery Plant in Millsboro, Delaware, built by the company, converts waste streams into resources as part of its environmental programme.

Mountaire Farms has remained under family ownership and leadership across multiple generations; Ronnie Cameron serves as chairman of the board, succeeding founder Guy Cameron. The company states that its conduct is guided by the Mountaire Creed, which sets out expectations around quality, honesty, personal growth and stewardship. It also reports commitments to animal welfare, sustainability and community giving, including the Meals for Thousands programme.