Source: Rita Jane Gabbett, MEATINGPLACE, 4/10/15

Sanderson Farms came one step closer to constructing a huge new poultry complex in North Carolina when the St. Pauls Board of Commissioners approved an incentives package of tax breaks in exchange for jobs and investments, according to the local newspaper, the Robesonian.

The company announced last month the proposed poultry complex would be able to process 1.25 million birds per week for the big bird deboning market. At full capacity, the complex would employ some 1,100 people, require 100 contract growers and produce about 500 million pounds of dressed poultry meat per year.

Under the terms of the incentive package, Sanderson Farms has until Jan.1 2017, to build the plant in the town’s industrial park about four miles west of St. Pauls.

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