The new owner of a Dubuque pork processing plant is closing the fresh pork operation. Smithfield Foods has bought the Farmland Foods plant. All but about one-hundred of the plant’s 11-hundred employees will be effected. The company plans to invest 10-million dollars in the plant to make processed meat and microwave products. State officials say they’ll aid plant employees in finding new jobs.
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