GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — A company that hatches chicks to stock egg producers is considering building a hatchery in central Nebraska that would produce 24 million day-old chicks a year.

Hendrix-ISA, of Ephrata, Pennsylvania, is developing plans to build a hatchery at Grand Island’s Platte Valley Industrial Park-East.

Hendrix sales manager Ken Alvarez says the hatchery would create 50 new jobs.

Hendrix has applied for $2.5 million in tax-increment financing, under the business name Hatchery Holdings LLC, to build on 20 acres.

Alvarez says that besides the hatchery, Hendrix-ISA expects to create about eight to nine breeder farms to feed eggs into the hatchery.

Grand Island officials say at least one other location outside the city is being considered by Hendrix.