5/28/2023 0 Comments Pilgrims pride![]() Soy meal is stored until needed in a pair of 740-ton tanks standing 26 feet in diameter by 144 feet tall. There is space to add a third hammermill or a roller mill if needed. Both mills have variable speed drives, Stephenson says, to accommodate two different grind sizes. Corn then is ground on a pair of Roskamp Champion 500-hp hammermills at 120 tph before being sent to storage bins inside the mill. Whole corn is stored in two 400,000-bushel slipform concrete tanks 64 feet in diameter and 160 feet tall and equipped with Springland zero-entry sweep augers. The rail pit can feed corn or soy meal to either of two high-speed legs at 30,000-bph each. The plant is equipped with two receiving pits one of the two bays handles both rail and truck. Smith’s Ready Mix, Nashville, AR (87), was the concrete supplier.Charles, MO (63), provided plant automation systems. Queen City Railroad Construction Inc., Knoxville, TN (86), built the 11,000-foot ladder-style railyard.Interstates, Sioux Center, IA (71), performed electrical engineering.Cavenaugh Electric, Wallace, NC (91), was the electrical contractor. (Todd & Sargent also is building a mill for Pilgrim’s Pride at Ranger, GA, which is expected to be completed in summer 2020.)Īlso taking part in the Nashville project: Stephenson notes that the contractor had built a double loadout facility at a Pilgrim’s Pride mill in Pittsburg, TX and had established a reputation with the miller for quality work. Overseeing the entire process was the general contractor, Todd & Sargent, Inc., Ames, IA (51). Startup took place in April 2019, and the mill reached full production in June. The structure was slipped in November 2017. ![]() Sitework for the new mill took place in April 2017. The company also ships in individual railcars of soy meal. Those unit trains bring corn to the plant primarily from the Midwest. Pilgrim’s Pride purchased the site along State Highway 369 in 2015, “because it was the only site with enough flat ground to build a railyard that can hold a 110-car Union Pacific unit train.” Plant is ready to receive via truck and rail Today, the company has replaced that old mill with a new 12,000-tpw slipform concrete plant at a rural site 10 miles north of Nashville. “At the time it was built, it was producing 4,500 tpw,” says Feed Mill Manager Coty Stephenson, “and by the time we shut it down this year, it was operating at 8,500 tpw.” Stephenson has been with Pilgrim’s Pride for four years prior to that, he operated a feed mix plant in Texas that he had built himself. By 2015, 60 years later, its current owner, Pilgrim’s Pride Corp., decided that the mill, the oldest feed facility in the vertically-integrated poultry company, had become outdated. Nashville, AR - Feed manufacturing had been done at an in-town site in Nashville, AR since 1955.
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