Project Converting a former SuperValu distribution center into a new 210,000 square foot chicken entree, appetizer, and snack processing facility Investment N/A
Completion N/A

Project Pork boning and finished goods packaging facility. Joining Hormel at this 50,000 sq. ft. cite will be Quality Pork Processors Inc., an Austin, MN, pork processor supplying Hormel.
Investment $5 million
Completion N/A

Plant location Announced in early 2004 plans to build a poultry-processing complex in Georgia, Alabama, or South Carolina. Most recently announced sites in Adel, GA, chosen for the hatchery and feed mill; and a site near Moultrie, GA, was chosen for a new poultry processing plant and wastewater treatment facility.
Project Poultry
Investment Estimated $181.7 million; includes an $80 million processing facility
Completion Late 2005

Project Ham manufacturing plant; 180,000 square foot plant; billed as “the most efficient cooked ham plant in the United States.”
Investment $85 million
Completion April 2006

Project A new Customer Solutions and Product Development Center complex. Totals 32,000 sq. ft., divided into 16,000 sq. ft. of customer interaction, culinary, and meat/food processing areas for product testing and process improvement; and 16,000 square feet of office space and areas for future expansion.
Investment N/A
Completion Spring 2005

Project Seaboard Farms entered into a marketing agreement with Triumph Foods LLC to market all pork products produced by Triumph Foods at a new state-of-the-art pork processing plant Triumph intends to construct.
Investment $130 million.
Completion Late 2005

Project In April ‘04, Tyson unveiled plans to build its new Discovery Center, a 184,000 sq. ft. R&D center and training facility to be built on Tyson’s Springdale, AR corporate headquarters campus.
Investment N/A
Completion N/A

Project Poultry processing. Officials expected the 100,000 square foot facility to support two fully-cooked production lines with room for four additional lines.
Investment $55 million Phase One installment began in fall of 2004.
Completion Spring 2006

Project Plant slices packaged chicken, turkey, ham, and roast beef. New slicing operation in an underground industrial real estate development.
Investment N/A
Completion March 2005

Company Advance Brands LLC, an Oklahoma City, OK-based joint venture between Advance Food Co., Enid, OK, and Wichita, KS-based Cargill Meat Solutions.
Plant location Orange City, IA
Project This 31,000 sq. ft, meat plant expansion broke ground in Oct. 2004
Investment $17 million. Increases production capacity by 45 million pounds, while adding more than 120 new employees. New production capacity for a completely new line on a fast-track basis ready-to-eat branded meat products. Includes both new construction and renovation.
Completion July 2005

Project Expanding its chicken processing plant; renovating 6,000 sq. ft. adding 44,000 square feet. The company has shifted its focus from selling 40-pound bulk boxes of chicken to brokers to preparing more 1- to 2-pound case-ready packages of chicken. The expansion allows the Harbeson plant to process about 60 million pounds of chicken a year — five times more than previously processed.
Investment $20 million
Completion N/A

Project Expansion project to increase capacity, improve operational efficiency, and further advance food-safety programs. Increased packaging, production, and formulation space and capacity for ready-to-eat meat products and pizza toppings. Included both new construction and remodeling of existing plant.
Investment N/A
Completion July 2005

Project New production and consolidation of existing facilities; sausages, deli products, and franks. Remodel of existing distribution center and new expansion.
Investment N/A
Completion June 2005

Project Expansion project to increase beef slaughter capacity. Expanded beef carcass coolers and streamlined the beef slaughter operation.
Investment $17 million
Completion Mid-June, 2005

Project Expansion to double the capacity of its marinated beef, pork, and chicken facility; added 17,500 square feet of production/office space.
Investment More than $4 million
Completion Fall 2004

Project Breakfast sausage and biscuit products. This 33,000 sq. ft. addition to its existing plant will help keep up with demand for ready-to-eat breakfast sausage and biscuit products. The expansion will increase capacity to eight lines.
Investment N/A
Completion August, 2005. A second-phase expansion will add a cook line to the plant in mid 2006.

Project Poultry facility; includes new hatchery. The facility is being converted to process exclusively for the big bird deboning market. With the conversion of the Collins plant to a larger-weight bird, and the additional capacity of 150,000 head a week created by the expansion project, the company will add approximately 2.2 million pounds a week of fresh chicken processing capacity, approximately 7.3 percent increase over prior capacity, says Joe F. Sanderson Jr., chairman and chief executive officer of Sanderson Farms.
Investment $20 million
Completion Fourth fiscal quarter of 2005

Project Case-ready beef and pork; Renovating a former Oscar Mayer plant. The plant will be transformed into Tyson’s largest case-ready facility.
Investment Approximately $100 million
Completion Early 2006

Project The two-story addition — along with mechanical and procedural changes, will help increase production capacity to 15,000 hogs a day and boost volumes of finished pork loins and hams.
Investment N/A
Completion Oct., 2004