LITTLE ROCK — The Prime Quality Feeds mill, a North Little Rock landmark since the 1920s, will cease operations at the end of the week, introducing the possibility of more downtown redevelopment.
Mountaire Corp. sold its Prime Quality brand to Minneapolis-based Cargill Animal Nutrition earlier this year, and the plant continued to manufacture feed for 10 months. But now Cargill is moving the brand's production to a new plant in Byhalia, Miss., eliminating the need for the North Little Rock mill.
The facility employs about 25 hourly and 15 salaried employees, said Dee Ann Landreth, president of Mountaire. Most of the employees will stay through next week to ship out inventory and clean up, and a few will transfer to Cargill.
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