The Southwest Cheese plant south of Clovis will begin work on a $140 million expansion that will bring around 50 jobs and an estimated $37.5 million to the area’s economy over a 10 year period, according to the plant’s president and an area economic director.

The 110,000 square foot expansion to the current site will take around two years, President of Southwest Cheese George Chappell said Wednesday.

Chappell added that he expects groundbreaking to happen sometime in early 2016.

Both salary and hourly positions in everything from feeding cattle to shipping dairy products will become available, Chappell said.

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