Wholestone Farms Sioux Falls Processing Plant has Big Implications for Pork Producers

July 5, 2021 Bridget Bennett, KELO

Adding a second pork producing plant in Sioux Falls; the new proposal by Wholestone Farms, a farmer-owned company, would bring a $500 million dollar processing facility to the south east corner of I-229 and Benson road.

Hanford, CA’s Central Valley Meat Betting Big On Beef With Expansion

Central Valley Meat wants to do a two-phase expansion of its beef processing plant in Hanford and has applied to Kings County for a conditional use permit. The big plant already processes about 1,500 head of cattle a day.

Maple Leaf Foods Completes Purchase of Indianapolis Plant

March 23, 2021 Maple Leaf Foods Inc.

Maple Leaf Foods announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Greenleaf Foods, SPC, completed its previously announced purchase of a 118,000 square foot plant in Indianapolis where it will be installing new equipment to increase the Company’s tempeh production capacity to meet growing demand.

Olymel Announces the Temporary Closing of its Red Deer Plant in Alberta

February 16, 2021 Olymel

Despite the testing protocols and sanitary measures already in place, as well as the close collaboration of Alberta Health Services to deal with a resurgence of positive cases of Covid-19 among plant employees, Olymel management believes that the conditions are no longer assembled to continue normal operations in a safe and efficient manner.

Olymel Announces Investment to Increase Production Capacity at its Ange-Gardien Pork Processing Plant

February 5, 2021 Olymel l.p.

Olymel management today announced an investment of $9 million to set up a second shift at its Ange-Gardien (formerly F.Ménard) hog slaughtering, cutting and deboning plant in Montérégie-Est, Quebec. This investment and the new evening shift will create more than 250 new jobs and should be in operation by next September.