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Ground broken on $800M cattle processing plant in Missouri

American Foods Group broke ground on a state-of-the-art beef processing facility in Warren County, Missouri this week.

Missouri Ag Director Chris Chinn tells Brownfield the $800 million plant will process over 2,400 cattle per day. “I think this is going to help us add more value to the cattle industry in the state,” she said, “but I also think that it’s going to help our grain industry and all of our rural communities. This is going to give some of our cattlemen and women the opportunity to expand.”

The plant will be called America’s Heartland Packing, LLC.

Chinn says they hope to start processing by the end of 2024. “It’s going to take a while to build a facility of that size,” she said. “They are doing the dirt work now.”

The project is expected to generate $1 billion annually in Missouri.