JBS buying shuttered Hy-Vee facility for bacon, sausage production

A Brazilian company that’s the world’s largest meat processor is buying a Hy-Vee food preparation facility in central Iowa that closed this spring. Hy-Vee used the facility in Ankeny to make sandwiches, salads, bakery items and take-and-bake pizzas. JBS will retool the plant and it will make fully-cooked, ready-to-eat bacon and sausage. JBS is hoping […]

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Donald Schmitt, 92, Storm Lake

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