Company officials say the addition will bolster warehouse space by 50 percent, or 140,000 square feet, allowing it to store more than 750 truckloads of refrigerated food products. The company, which has its corporate offices in Sioux City, will also add eight new employees.

Officials say growing output from Cloverleaf’s local Farmers Produce plant is the reason behind the warehouse expansion. Farmers Produce is a subsidiary of Cloverleaf that provides custom, short-run food processing services to the protein production industry.