Harrison Poultry, a Bethlehem, Ga. chicken processor, held a groundbreaking ceremony for its new, state-of-the-art feed mill complex in early December 2018. That achievement was the first step in a multi-year, multi-million dollar plan to greatly increase its production capacity, processing capacity and operating efficiencies. For this 60-year-old Georgia processor, the key to its upcoming transformation had to start at the mill.
Harrison Poultry was founded by R. Harold Harrison in 1958. Seven years after the company was launched, it built a feed mill in Winder, Ga. That feed mill, now 53 years old, has the capacity to produce 5,000 tons of feed per week. The new mill will produce more than three times that amount — 18,000 tons per week.