GOLDFIELD, Iowa — Centurion Poultry Inc. recently opened a new hatchery here with an annual capacity of 18 million pullet chicks.
The hatchery — CPI-Prairie Gold Hatchery — is a new 35,000-square-foot facility equipped with Pas-Reform Hatchery Technology's incubation and air handling equipment, Prinzen egg handling machinery and Warrior chick processing automation.
The Goldfield hatchery replaces one in Beaver Dam, Wis., and joins other hatcheries located in Alabama, Missouri, Pennsylvania and Kansas for a combined capacity of 55 million pullets annually.
Gijs Schimmel, president of Centurion Poultry, noted that since Iowa, with more than 50 million laying. . .
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