More than 30 houses will be built over the next year. Project Director Ervin Burkholder, at left, in knit cap, watches as construction on the project begins. Broiler growout and breeder houses will be built to Western specifications, with modern feed-delivery and watering equipment. Bulldozers clear away the snow for construction on new poultry houses to begin. The Elinar project is funded by a joint-venture between the U.S. and Russian poultry industries.
Concrete begins to flow as the foundations of the first new poultry house are laid.