May 14, 2012
Cargill increases operation for US hog facility
Cargill Pork is increasing operations on its 21,500-acre hog production facility in Texas, US, with intentions of raising up to an unconfirmed figure of 700,000 pigs annually.
Spokesman, Mike Martin, said the Dalhart facility when fully operational in 2014, will employ 300 people and produce a "significant portion" of the hogs Cargill processes at its pork facilities in Illinois and Iowa.
In April 2011, Smithfield Foods completed the sale of the facility to Cargill Inc. for approximately US$33 million.
Cargill will use the facility to produce pigs that will be transferred to Midwest grow-out facilities after they are weaned. The pigs will then become a portion of the animals Cargill Pork harvests annually at its two meat processing facilities in Beardstown, Illinois, and Ottumwa, Iowa.
