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When Cattle Farms Left Iowa, So Did Beef Processing Plants.
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Waterloo Courier (Waterloo, Iowa) (via Knight-Ridder/TribuneBusiness News)
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September 16, 2002
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2002 Waterloo Courier. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Byline: Matthew Wilde
Sep. 16--TAMA, Iowa--Beef processing plants, like cattle farms, used to be plentiful in Iowa.
Not any more.
Twenty-five years ago almost every Iowa farmer lived within 100 miles of a beef packing plant. They were all over --- Des Moines, Hospers, Tama, Oakland, Le Mars, Mason City, Fort Dodge, Spencer --- not to mention those in neighboring states. Even Rath Packing in Waterloo accepted cattle briefly in the late 1950s.
Now, only IBP Inc. in Denison and AgriProcessors Inc. in Postville remain.
Industry experts said packers locate where the cattle are. When they left the state, so did the packing plants.
John Lawrence, an Iowa ...
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