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Growers anticipate post-Sara Lee future.

Publication: Mississippi Business Journal
Publication Date: 26-MAR-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Sugar-cured ham has served as a tasty centerpiece on many a Magnolia State dinner table. Millions of Mississippi breakfasts have been made better by sizzling bacon.

Many of the pigs supplying those meals are themselves supplied by Mississippi hog farmers who sold their livestock to Sara Lee Corporation's facility, founded as Bryan Bros. in West Point in the early 20th century.

That plant will close March 30, with slaughter arid processing of nearly 10,000 animals weekly coming to an end several days before that. The much-publicized end of 1,200 jobs at the plant itself overshadows the potential loss of hundreds more jobs and, in extreme cases, catastrophic asset and property loss elsewhere in pork production.

"I owe $400,000 on these two farms," said Charles R. "Bob" Power, who grows out hogs with his sons Bill and Tom on two farms near Ackerman. Power got...

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