HOSPERS, Iowa – It remained a local mystery what the Hospers-based company Iowa Premium Pork plans to do with the giant HyLife slaughterhouse in Windom. The company acquired the plant for $13 million in a bankruptcy auction. Aside from shutting down the plant, the company has been mum on what to do with the sprawling Windom facility. HyLife gave up on the plant and filed for bankruptcy, blaming inflation, high grain costs, foreign exchange rates , and the plant’s operational losses. In bankruptcy proceedings, a judge approved the sale 20,000 HyLife finisher hogs to AgriSwine Alliance of Aberdeen, South Dakota, for $1.3 million.
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