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Mountaire Farms was the fifth-largest contributor to the 2016 Donald Trump presidential campaign. In 2018 Mountaire contributed $ 7.7 million towards GOP efforts in that year's midterm elections, which bought
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Breeder Feed Mill. In 2016, the company bought a former processing plant in Siler City, with plans to renovate and update the plant. In October of that year, Mountaire Farms opened a new Corporate Office Building in Millsboro. In 2017, the company acquired grain assets
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