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The plant will not slaughter, [23] but the 200,000-square-foot (19,000 m 2) facility [24] will allot 93,000 square feet (8,600 m 2) for processing and 74,000 square feet (6,900 m 2) for slicing a variety of meat products. [23] The company broke ground for the facility in October 2006. [3] It is expected to begin production in July 2007. [23]
It is a state-of-the-art turkey processing facility and the first full-line turkey facility to be built in the US since the late 1980s. [8] [9] Jordan Woodbury is the president of Dakota Provisions. The production facility is situated on 114 acres (46 hectares), two miles (three kilometers) east of Huron, South Dakota.
On January 14, 2013, JBS USA completed the purchase of the Brooks facility, a second XL beef facility in Calgary, Alberta, and a feedyard. [13] In July 2015, JBS USA purchased the U.S. pork processing business of Cargill Meat Solutions for $1.45 billion. [14]
In 2007, JBS went through with a US$225m acquisition of U.S. firm Swift & Company, [12] which was the third largest U.S. beef and pork processor, renamed as JBS USA. It leads the world in slaughter capacity, at 51.4 thousand head per day, and continues to focus on production operations, processing, and export plants, nationally and internationally.
The Dutch Quality House brand was created in 1978, and acquired by the company in 1985 through the purchase of a processing plant in Oakwood, Georgia. Additionally, the company purchased plants in Bossier City, Louisiana and Douglas, Georgia and built two new plants in Decatur, Alabama. The company later sold the Bossier City location in ...
National Beef is the U.S.'s fourth largest beef processor, with sales exceeding $7 billion annually. [15] National Beef products are available to national and regional retailers, including supermarket chains, independent grocers, club stores, wholesalers and distributors, foodservice providers and distributors, further processors and the U.S. military. [16]
Fort Worth-based Standard Meat Co. is planning to renovate a nearly 70-year-old building near the Stockyards to convert it into a specialized packing plant.
Cargill Meat Solutions is a subsidiary of Cargill Inc—a multi-generational family-owned and operated, multinational agribusiness giant.Cargill was America's Largest Private Company, with revenues of US$106.30 billion in 2008 and 151,500 employees, according to Forbes.