This could be good news or bad news for Sioux Falls, depends how you look at it;

The John Morrell & Co. plant in Sioux City, Iowa, will close this spring, according to a copyright story on the Sioux City Journal’s Web site.

It could mean the Sioux Falls plant will be closing to, or it could mean expansion. I spoke with a 20 year retired Morrell’s employee a few weeks ago and asked him what he thought. He pretty much said the Sioux Falls plant is a money maker and doesn’t see the sense in closing it because they produce value added products (I think I got that right) it is pretty much vacuum packed meat that has a shelf life of 60 days.

It will be interesting to watch this story develop.

By l3wis

3 thoughts on “Sioux City Morrells plant to close. Is Sioux Falls next?”
  1. The Sioux Falls plant is safe, for now. They put hogs in one side and finished product comes out the other. SC didn’t have that, so the move makes sense in the current environment.

    And yes, that is good news for us. As a result, Sioux City will have some negative pressure on those stats we saw in Poly’s thread, which is something we should be thankful we don’t.

    All those Credit Card jobs are looking all that better now.

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