Bush Hog To Close Telford, TN Plant If Not Sold By July

Bush Hog, headquartered in Selma, AL, announced that by mid-July, they will close their plant in Telford, TN, unless the company can sell the manufacturing facility before then, The Greenville Sun (Tennessee) reports. Nearly 150 workers would lose their jobs if the six-year-old plant closes. Word of the potential closing came through the company as part of the 1988 Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, which requires companies to inform local governments of pending mass layoffs.

The 360,000-square-foot Bush Hog plant manufactures rotary cutters, finishing mow-ers, zero-turn mowers, front-end loaders and backhoes.

Duane Prentice, Bush Hog’s president, recently said, “Bush Hog is currently in negotiations with several potential buyers for the sale of all parts of Bush Hog LLC (and) is also in negotiations with several entities regarding the sale and/or leasing of the company’s facility located at 101 Bush Hog Blvd., Telford.”

Bush Hog has three manufacturing plants in Alabama and another in Great Bend, KS. Bush Hog is owned by CC Industries Inc., of Chicago, a corporation which, in turn, is owned by Henry Crown & Co., also of Chicago. The $27 million Bush Hog factory suspended operations during January as a result of slow sales nationally of Bush Hog agricultural and mowing equipment. The plant resumed operations in early February.