FORT WAYNE, Ind. — A new milk processing plant in northeastern Indiana recently announced by Wal-Mart could cut into the amount of milk that dairy farmers currently have to ship out of state.
Wal-Mart announced plans for the new plant near Fort Wayne International Airport in March, and it’s scheduled to start processing milk in summer 2017. Wal-Mart hasn’t said how much milk it plans to process there, The (Fort Wayne) News-Sentinelreported.
The state adopted a dairy strategy last year, with a consultant’s recommendations including attracting another milk processor that could use 1 million to 2 million pounds of the 4 million pounds of milk shipped to processing facilities outside Indiana daily. Ted McKinney, director of the Indiana State Department of Agriculture, said the new plant will “easily” meet that threshold.
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