January 23, 2008
US, Canadian hog farmers to buy North Dakota slaughter plant
Hog farmers in the upper midwest US and Canada's prairie provinces announced plans to buy majority interest in a North Dakota slaughter plant.
The Cloverdale Growers's Alliance Cooperative, a group of about 60 hog farmers in North Dakota, Montana and Minnesota, has supplied the Mandan-based Cloverdale Foods Co. for the past decade.
The alliance now has signed a letter of intent to buy a controlling interest in Cloverdale's Minot, North Dakota, plant, said Dunn Center rancher Daryl Dukart.
