The Bulloch Meat-Packing Plant was established in Statesboro in 1917 with an investment of $150,000. Businessmen C.L Brooks and John W. Greer of Moultrie assisted locals Brooks Simmons, Glenn Bland, J.A. Brannen, W.G. Raines and A.J. Mooney, who served as its first president. The January 4, 1939, edition of the Bulloch Herald reported that the first farmer-owned-and-operated "meat-curing" plant had just celebrated its seventh year of operation in Bulloch County.