Cargill looking to build feedmill near Grand Junction
By ANDREW McGINN
a.mcginn@beeherald.com
GRAND JUNCTION — Multinational agribusiness Cargill, the nation’s largest private company, is exploring an area near Grand Junction for the site of a new feedmill.
Jane Fallon, general manager of Cargill Pork, told the Greene County board of supervisors Monday morning that the project isn’t fully funded — nor is Cargill fully committed to Greene County.
But, she said, the interest is there.
“We’ve got the critical mass already to justify putting in a feedmill of our own,” Fallon told supervisors.
A potential new feedmill at P46 and U.S. Highway 30 would employ 10 to 15 people, she said.
Using locally grown corn, it would produce 350,000 tons of feed a year specifically for hog producers within a 40-mile range under contract with Cargill, Fallon said.
The site would mark the first Cargill-branded facility in Greene County.
The Jefferson Herald will stay with this story as it develops.
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