date:Nov 07, 2012
uire the Brooks plant, which has a capacity of 4,000 head per day, along with some smaller units in the U.S. and Canada would lift JBS into the position of the largest beef company in North America.
This has brought out the anti-trust busters. R-CALF, the feisty Billings, MT-based cattlemens organization, has already asked for an anti-trust investigation, something it has done a time or two in the past.
If it does purchase the XL units, JBS and its three largest competitors in the U.S. would c