Not far down the road from the JBS Greeley Beef plant, is JBS Five River Kuner feedyard in Kersey, Colo. And this isn’t just a little yard. Some numbers:
- 88,200 head capacity
- $7.6 million operating budget
- 61 employees
- 2.1 – the number of times the population turns
- 185,200 head fed per year
- 3.42 ADG in FY 2011
- 550 acres – the area where the pens are housed
- 38 semi loads of corn received per day
- 5 semi loads of DDGs received per day
The yard was built originially by Monfort in the 1970s but recently JBS invested over $18 million on capital investments – including completely tearing down pens and rebuilding them. Afterward, Stone says they saw a big performance jump. He suspects it was due to the drier pens, as well as putting the water closer to the feedbunks.
A few photos:
The Country Chick 