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Sioux City pork plant scheduled for September start-up
Jun 9, 2017, 15:44 PM
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Officials with the new Seaboard Triumph Foods pork processing plant in Sioux City, Iowa, say the plant will be operational by early September.
Speaking at a World Pork Expo news conference, Seaboard Foods president and CEO Terry Holton said about two-thirds of the hogs going through the plant will come from Seaboard and Triumph facilities.
“Seaboard will provide one-third and Triumph Foods will provide a third,” Holton said, “and then, whether it’s through contracts from local producers or some spot market, we will buy one-third from local producers that exist today.”
The plant is designed to process 21-thousand hogs per day.
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