If anyone thinks South Dakotans can afford to lose ag jobs, they haven’t heard the latest news from Yankton:
The Cimpl cattle harvest facility has stopped their operations in Yankton, a news release from American Foods Group says.
and..
AFG says they plan to provide continued pay and benefits to employees during the transition and say team members are on-site discussing relocation options. According to the company, the decision to “idle harvest operations” impacts more than 250 employees.
Read the entire story here at KELOland.
That’s a lot of jobs for Yankton to lose.
All of the freedumbers and religious grifters don’t care. At most they’ll spout some Kulturkampf bs on their Facebook pages or about how this is Bidens fault somehow. But they won’t do anything to help secondary ag sectors.
Are we great yet?
Why yes, yes we are.
Are Lems and Hansen twins by different mothers.
Change the state motto to
SD: CLOSED FOR BUSINESS.
Cimpl should have just gotten that magic ‘reset’ button from Larry. Apparently it allows you to ignore reality, ignore the law and ignore your financial obligations and continue to operate in LaLa land.
Somehow Julie Auch will blame the Summit people for this, “Cimpl had to leave because the pipeline was going to kill all the cows.”
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Cimpl should get that magic “reset” button from Larry Lems. Apparently it allows you to ignore reality, ignore current law, ignore your financial obligations and live in LaLa land.
Julie Auch’land’ will most certainly blame this on the Summit project, “Cimpl had to move, the pipeline was going to kill all their cows!”
Somehow Governor Noem left and South Dakota went full on “ Out of Business”!
Thank goodness that DANGEROUS CO2 won’t be able to push up new cheap “Crude Oil” from the Western ND oil fields!!!! Or push the price of our super cheap ethanol any higher….
Go talk to Mortenson, Venhuizen, and Rehfeldt if you have a problem. Oh yeah Rhoden also signed it. Guess they made Lems legit. She should run for governor.
Thank Amanda Radke for her antics. No ethanol, no solar, no wind, no pipelines, no data centers, no development. Amanda Radke = NO THANK YOU
How does this happen and be a surprise to GOED/Yankton economic development??
Remember when AFG did this to Huron. Carl sold it on a deal pencilled on a napkin, even though the community had put up serious dollars to keep him, and the workers showed up to a closed plant. Nothing new from AFP here
You are exactly right Lee!
And nearly 30 years later, there are still piles of cement chunks that had been the Dakota Pork plant.
They opened a nearly 1 billion dollar facility in Missouri. As much as I detest the trash South Dakota legislators and Trump’s anti business stances with tariffs, neither of these are responsible for Cimpl’s decision. They have a newer, more efficient facility with more potential employees than Yankton can provide. It sucks to see a community stalwart leave, but it made sense for the business.
Word is Luke Minion and Wholestone are looking at it.