Cargill plans to spend nearly $90 million to upgrade the systems at its beef plant in northeastern Colorado, company officials announced Thursday.
The multi-year project will install a proprietary computer vision system known as CarVe, along with additional technologies and automation capabilities, at the facility in Fort Morgan.
Cargill officials said that CarVe helps optimize meat cutting techniques by measuring red meat yields in real time. The company said that implementing similar systems across the nation’s beef sector could save hundreds of millions of pounds of meat and, ultimately, “keep more protein in the food system.”
“Before CarVe, yield data was always yesterday’s news,” Jarrod Gillig, the senior vice president of Cargill’s North American beef business, said in the announcement. “Now, we’re making decisions in the moment and saving product that would’ve been lost.”
The newly announced upgrades follow $24 million in technology spending at the Fort Morgan plant in the past five years.
