Sioux City pork plant begins second shift

Sioux City pork plant begins second shift

The Seaboard Triumph Foods pork processing plant in Sioux City, Iowa has started a second production shift.

“We’ve been staffing a second shift though the summer, just getting folks on board and trained,” says the plant’s chief operating officer Mark Porter, “Just here in the last week or so, we’ve begun testing our ability to harvest hogs on second shift and we successfully harvested over 11,000 yesterday—the first time the plant’s hit that milestone.”

Porter says the first shift is currently processing 10-thousand hogs per day.

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