Construction is expected to take about 13 months with operations planned to commence in the summer of 2021.

Enterprise facility adds hundreds of jobs.

Boaz is the company's smallest operation in terms of processing capacity and employs approximately 1,100 people.

The expansion in its Alabama facilities could create about 150 jobs and generate almost $6 million in income for local chicken farmers.

The investment includes the construction of a new feed mill in Pinckard, Ala., and a $10 million renovation of the processing facility in Enterprise, Ala.