Mason City pork processing facility officially announced

     Following a week of speculation, plans to build a pork processing facility near Mason City have been officially announced.
     Prestage Foods of Iowa formally announced the project on March 21, declaring their intentions to build a $240 million plant that will employ up to 1,000 people.
     “We are excited to take the next logical step in vertical integration by building a new, high tech pork plant in Mason City,” said Prestage DVM Ron Prestage in a press release. “We see this as an opportunity to secure the future of our family business, its employees and our contract growers.”
      Read the full article in the March 30 edition of the Hampton Chronicle.