date:Jun 11, 2014
pork processing facilities in Illinois and Iowa.
Cargills US pork operation has maintained 50 per cent group housing for company owned sows over the past several years.
The companys 2011 acquisition of an idled hog farm complex in the Texas Panhandle is allowing Cargill to achieve 100 percent group housing for its gestating sows.
Over the past three years, Cargill has invested more than $60 million in the purchase and improvement of the 22,000-acre property near Dalhart, Texas, including the