Choctaw Maid Farms Carthage, MS Industrial Contract amount: $7,401,183 Start date: August 1995 Completion date: March 1997 A combination of several contracts to expand and renovate an existing poultry processing facility from 59,800 to 314,800 square feet. This renovation created Mississippi's largest poultry processing facility ( and one of the world's largest) then becoming the Corporate Headquarters. The new plant processes 364 birds per minute. Mechanical features included a 6,250 tons of refrigeration and 2,900 gallons of water well capacity per minute with 150,000 gallons of storage. One of the greatest challenges was meeting the one-day time allowed for converting from the existing to the new processing plant. First contract started 8/29/95 and the last contract finished 3/15/97.