N.C. gives town wastewater grant to support Mountaire Farms expansion

The North Carolina Rural Infrastructure Authority has granted the town of Siler City $1.5 million to assist in providing expanded wastewater services in support of a 700-job expansion by Mountaire Farms. The Delaware-based poultry processor currently has five locations in the state. The grant supports a total capital investment of $70 million by the company. Mountaire Farms announced in May it entered into an agreement to acquire the former Townsend processing plant and an adjoining property in Siler City that it would renovate into a modern poultry plant.