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Jim Brown worked at the dairy processing plant for decades and worries about the 60 people who could potentially lose their jobs. Quebec-based Agropur announced last week that it would close the Butternut Valley plant near Sussex in 2028.
Retired plant worker worries for the 60 people who could lose their jobs
Mark Leger · CBC News
· Posted: Apr 27, 2026 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 27 minutes ago
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Jim and Marjorie Brown said the Agropur plant is an important part of the region’s economy and identity. Jim worked there for decades before retiring. (Mark Leger/CBC News)
Many people in the Sussex area are feeling the pain from the news that Agropur is planning to close its plant that employs around 60 people in a community long known as Dairy Town.
But perhaps none would feel the loss more acutely than Jim Brown, a former dairy farmer who was part of the original group in the mid-1980s that opened the Dairytown plant, which eventually became part of the Agropur group of companies.
“I felt terrible, just terrible,” said Brown when he learned the news.
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