Hog farmers in the Upper Midwest and Canada's prairie provinces plan to buy majority interest in a North Dakota slaughter plant, in what one official calls a historic moment for the region's pork industry.The Cloverdale Growers' Alliance Cooperative, a group of about 60 hog farmers in North Dakota, Montana and Minnesota, has supplied the Mandan-based Cloverdale Foods Co. for the past decade. The alliance now has signed a letter of intent to buy a controlling interest in Cloverdale's Minot plant, said Dunn Center rancher Daryl Dukart.
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