Perdue Adds $3M Feed Loading System at Georgia Facility

American food firm Perdue Farms recently upgraded its hatchery, feed mill, and live production office in Forsyth, GA with a new $3.8 million feed loading system that will improve the site’s rail unloading capabilities, a company official told the Monroe County Reporter.

The new equipment replaced a conveyor system installed at the site in 1994 that became worn over time and generated a foul odor, the facility’s manager, Clay Copeland, said in an interview with the newspaper. 

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Perdue’s new feed loading system transports grain from railcars into silos. Copeland told the Reporter that the facility gets a rail shipment of grain every 10 days and that the recently installed system should help lower the foul odor. 

The company announced plans to invest $42 million to install a third cooking line at its Perry, GA production plant in April 2018. Perdue said the expansion will help it to meet the growing demand for no-antibiotics-ever and organic products.

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