Wal-Mart today will announce plans to build a multi-million-dollar milk processing plant on farmland just south of Fort Wayne International Airport.
The operation is expected to employ more than 200 by the end of next year. The average starting wage for positions at the facility will be more than $19 an hour, a company spokesman said. Construction of the 250,000-square-foot plant is scheduled to begin this summer.
“We in agriculture are beside ourselves with joy,” Ted McKinney told The Journal Gazette in a phone interview Thursday. McKinney is director of the Indiana State Department of Agriculture.
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