A multi-million-dollar project to streamline warehousing at Cargill’s High River beefpacking plant is expected to help the agrifood firm ramp up its exports to Asia.
The Alberta Livestock and Meat Agency (ALMA) last month announced a grant of up to $3 million over two years, funded through the federal/ provincial Growing Forward ag policy funding framework, toward the $42 million project.
The modernization project is to include technology for Cargill’s warehousing system, to lower the overall operating costs for the plant.
ALMA said the new technology is expected to improve the plant’s logistics by “providing the production capabilities needed to meet export customer expectations.”
“The project, coupled with Alberta’s large volume of age-verified cattle, will result in improved logistics to export markets,” Scott Entz, Cargill Meat Solutions’ general manager, said in ALMA’s release.
