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Seville Farms laid off 72 employees at its facility near Winona this month, as part of a larger “mass layoff and/or plant closing” at a total of three of its locations.

The layoffs affected 227 people, at farm locations near Winona and in Los Fresnos and Mansfield, according to a letter Seville Farms sent to the Texas Workforce Commission to inform the state agency about the layoffs that took place July 20. The letter didn’t provide specific information about which facilities might be closing.

Billy Brentlinger, the company’s president and CEO, on Wednesday said the three facilities are still in operation. Seville Farms is working to sell the company and save as many jobs as possible. Workers are still at those sites, but he said he couldn’t say how many.

“We are still open, we’re shipping,” he said, adding that those sites still have inventory that is being sold as Seville is operating as an ongoing business.

The company’s letter to the workforce commission mentioned the loss of a key customer, but Brentlinger said many factors contributed to the layoffs.

Fort Worth-based Seville Farms sells flowers and others plants. The company’s website says it was founded in 1994 near Mansfield.

“… our mission was to provide high quality annuals, perennials, and ground covers to garden centers across Texas,” the website says. “This is still our mission today. With facilities now across the region and production space that numbers in the millions of square feet, Seville Farms can deliver almost any product you want anywhere you want.”

Seville Farms also has locations in Waxahachie, New Summerfield and Schulenberg.