−Removed: The following table summarizes our domestic production and distribution properties as of September 28, 2019:
+Added: The following table summarizes our domestic production properties as of October 3, 2020 :
Number of Facilities (1)
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Beef Segment Production Facilities
−Removed: 155,000 head (3)
Pork Segment Production Facilities
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74 million pounds
−Removed: Distribution Centers and Outside Cold Storage Facilities
Certain facilities produce products that are reported in multiple segments.
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Beef and Pork (six day week) and Chicken and Prepared Foods (five day week).
−Removed: Capacity per week at year end is also impacted by acquisitions and divestitures during fiscal 2019.
Average capacity utilization is based on capacity available throughout the year.
−Removed: Includes one temporarily idled plant due to the impact of a fire.
−Removed: Beef plants include various phases of harvesting live cattle and fabricating beef products.
−Removed: We also have various plants which have rendering operations along with tanneries and hide treatment operations.
+Added: Beef facilities include various phases of harvesting live cattle and fabricating beef products and specialty products.
+Added: We also have various facilities which have rendering operations along with tanneries and hide treatment operations.
The Beef segment includes three case-ready operations that share facilities with the Pork segment.
One of the beef facilities contains a tallow refinery.
−Removed: Pork plants include various phases of harvesting live hogs and fabricating pork products and allied products.
−Removed: The Pork segment includes three case-ready operations that share facilities with and are included in the Beef segment above.
−Removed: Our vertically-integrated Chicken operations facilities include processing plants, rendering plants, blending mills, feed mills, grain elevators and broiler hatcheries.
−Removed: The Chicken processing plants include various phases of harvesting, dressing, cutting, packaging, deboning and further-processing.
−Removed: We also have animal nutrition operations, which are associated with the Chicken rendering plants or within various Chicken processing facilities.
+Added: Pork facilities include various phases of harvesting live hogs and fabricating pork products and specialty products.
+Added: The Pork segment includes three case-ready operations that share facilities with and are included in the Beef segment in the table above.
+Added: Our vertically-integrated Chicken operations facilities include processing facilities, rendering facilities, blending mills, feed mills, grain elevators and broiler hatcheries.
+Added: The Chicken processing facilities include various phases of harvesting, dressing, cutting, packaging, deboning and further-processing.
+Added: We also have animal nutrition operations, which are associated with the Chicken rendering facilities or within various Chicken processing facilities.
The blending mills, feed mills, grain elevators and broiler hatcheries have sufficient capacity to meet the needs of the chicken growout operations.
−Removed: The Chicken segment includes five processing plants that share facilities with and are included in the Prepared Foods segment above.
+Added: The Chicken segment includes five processing facilities that share facilities with and are included in the Prepared Foods segment in the table above.
Prepared Foods:
−Removed: Our Prepared Foods segment includes processing plants and a vertically-integrated turkey operation.
−Removed: Our Prepared Foods plants process fresh and frozen chicken, turkey, beef, pork and other raw materials into ready-to-eat sandwiches, sandwich components such as flame-grilled hamburgers and Philly steaks, pizza toppings, branded and processed meats, appetizers, prepared meals, ethnic foods, flour and corn tortilla products and meat dishes.
−Removed: The Prepared Foods segment includes two processing plants that share facilities with and are included in the Chicken segment above.
−Removed: In addition, our International/Other foreign production operations in Asia-Pacific and China-Korea include one beef plant, 20 chicken processing plants, four feed mills and one broiler hatchery.
−Removed: The processing plants include various phases of harvesting, dressing, cutting, packaging, deboning and further-processing.
−Removed: We also have foreign production operations in Europe which include two chicken further-processing plants.
+Added: Our Prepared Foods segment includes processing facilities and a vertically-integrated turkey operation.
+Added: Our Prepared Foods facilities process fresh and frozen chicken, turkey, beef, pork and other raw materials into ready-to-eat sandwiches, sandwich components such as flame-grilled hamburgers and Philly steaks, pizza toppings, branded and processed meats, appetizers, prepared meals, ethnic foods, flour and corn tortilla products and meat dishes.
+Added: The Prepared Foods segment includes two processing facilities that share facilities with and are included in the Chicken segment in the table above.
+Added: We own and lease domestic distribution and cold storage facilities that support the supply chains of all our segment operations and are not specifically dedicated to individual segments.
+Added: Our International/Other foreign production operations in Asia-Pacific and China-Korea include one beef facility, 20 chicken processing facilities, four feed mills and one broiler hatchery.
+Added: The processing facilities include various phases of harvesting, dressing, cutting, packaging, deboning and further-processing.
+Added: We also have a foreign production operation in Europe which includes a chicken further-processing facility.
We believe our present facilities are generally adequate and suitable for our current purposes;
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We regularly engage in construction and other capital improvement projects intended to expand capacity and improve the efficiency of our processing and support facilities.
−Removed: We also consider the efficiencies of our operations and may from time to time consider changing the number or type of plants we operate to align with our capacity needs.
+Added: We also consider the efficiencies of our operations and may from time to time consider changing the number or type of facilities we operate to align with our capacity needs.
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