Long idle Iowa Tyson plant reopening under new owners

 

January 27, 2019



CHEROKEE, Iowa (AP) — An idle meat-processing plant that closed in 2014 in northwest Iowa will reopen this week with new owners.

The Sioux City Journal reports that Iowa Food Group has hired about 35 people initially to work at the plant in Cherokee, Iowa, and plans to increase the staff to about 100 this year.

The company plans to process beef, chicken, pork and lamb slaughtered elsewhere and package it for retail.

Arkansas-based Tyson Foods closed the plant in September 2014, taking 450 jobs with it. Tyson held onto its lease and weathered criticism that it was holding the county hostage eco...



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