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Pork producers look at developing own processing plants

June 11, 1999 By admin

The National Pork Producers Council is considering opening its own chain ofpork processing plants to help producers get a better share of the market.Council President John McNutt raises hogs near Iowa City.In addition to several pork processing plants, McNutt says the DesMoines-based N-P-P-C might even develop its own brand of pork, though hesays the ideas are still being considered by the Council leaders.Iowa is the number-one pork producing state in the nation, though NorthCarolina is very close behind. McNutt says the processing plants would-quote- “need to go where the hogs are” but that doesn’t guarantee any ofthe perhaps three factories would be located in the Hawkeye State.McNutt says the move by the N-P-P-C toward creating producer owned &operated plants would “reposition producers in a value chain so that theyhave a good future.”

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