The Tri-City (Wash.) Herald reported that ConAgra Foods' Lamb-Weston business plans on May 30 to close its frozen potato processing plant in Prosser, Wash.
Despite national economic woes, food and beverage processors are moving ahead with more than 70 capital projects involving production plants and distribution centers.
Sanderson Farms Inc., Laurel, Miss., announced that it will register for possible future sale shares of its common and/or preferred stock at or below $1 billion.
Just days after Sanderson Farms said it will delay plans for a new plant in North Carolina, Foster Farms, Livingston, Calif., said it will no longer build a poultry operation in northeastern Colorado.
Sanderson Farms Inc., Laurel, Miss., said it will spend $126.5 million to construct a new feed mill, hatchery and poultry processing plant in Kinston, N.C.