As a total vertically integrated complex, Holmes Foods has the control and flexibility necessary to produce a custom product.

 

Feed Mill

With the ability to change ingredients and administer those to our entire flock, we not only can control efficiency but cost, as well.  Should we choose to change the formulation of our feed, our entire complex would reap the benefits of such a change.

 

 

 

 

 

Breeders

The design of our breeder and hatchery departments allows us to grow and test genetics from different lines of birds that are best suited for the product we are trying to produce.  Currently, Cobb's genetics give us what we require in a broiler, but should we choose to change our desired targets, we could easily search and find the genetics that would best suit our needs.

 

 

 

 

Live Production

Though all of our broiler houses are on contract with individual growers, our live production department provides the supervision and structure that is required to assure growth potential is maximized.  All contract growers are required to follow a strict regiment and schedule and through their cooperation we are able to grow a healthy bird. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Processing Plant

As a small independently owned company, decisions can be made quickly and our product can change with market demands almost overnight.  This gives our plant a huge advantage over the competition.  While others are fumbling through all the red tape and paperwork to accomplish a goal, we are are already running the product and researching how to make it better.

 

Safety, quality, production, yield and cost are the five key areas that control any processing plant and Holmes Foods keys on the first four, knowing that if those are efficiently managed, cost management is easy. 

 

 

 

 

Hay Farm

By recycling rendered water to irrigate, Holmes Foods has managed to increase profitability.  Growing a second and third product has enabled us to "kill two birds with one stone" and supply a much needed service to the local ranchers in this area.  Because most of the land in Nixon, Texas and Gonzales County is primarily owned by cattle ranchers, hay and cattle are always in need.  In the dry years, landowners need hay and in the wet years they need cattle.

 

 

 

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