New Beef Plant Debuts in Calgary

[frenchie]

New Beef Plant Debuts in Calgary
meatingplace.com

About 150 attended the grand opening of Rancher's Beef Ltd.'s new beef processing plant in Calgary, Alberta Tuesday. The $40 million (Canadian) plant will be able to process about 800 cattle per day when it reaches full capacity later this year.

The business is owned by 48 investors, mainly cattle ranchers and others from the meat processing end of the industry, and will specialize in slaughtering younger cattle, particularly those under 20 months of age, with an eye to exporting beef to Japan and other Asian markets.

This is the first new slaughter plant to debut in Alberta, the center of Canada's cattle industry, since Cargill Inc. built a plant in High River in 1989. The Rancher's Beef plant was completed in just over a year.

Two smaller plants, Canadian Premium Meats and Ranchers Meats, are under construction in other parts of Alberta.

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[toby]

Is this work that Canadians won't do? So you'll need a bunch of illegals to come and do the work in this plant like they say we have to have here in the U.S.!!!! ;-) ;-)

 

[Oldtimer]

Is this work that Canadians won't do? So you'll need a bunch of illegals to come and do the work in this plant like they say we have to have here in the U.S.!!!! ;-) ;-)

I would say that if this plant wants to compete with Cargil/Tyson who already use immigrant labor (African/Asian) in their Canada plants, that they will probably have to import in immigrant labor too...

But at least from what I've been able to discern, most of Canada's are LEGAL immigrants that are brought in LEGALLY to supplement the workforce....

Maybe some of the Canadians have a little closer knowledge of the situation and can better answer...