New Kosher Slaughterhouse

A large kosher slaughterhouse and processing plant is being planned for South Dakota.

 

Where’s the kosher beef? It could be South Dakota

(JTA) – A large kosher slaughterhouse and processing plant is being planned for South Dakota.

A spokesman for First American Farms told the Sioux City Journal that the company was eyeing a 300- to 400-acre location in rural Union County for a kosher beef facility.

Linda King, First American’s registered agent in South Dakota, told county commissioners that the plant would employ up to 1,500 people, 90 percent of them local residents, one commissioner told the Journal.

A second commissioner, Ross Jordan, told reporters that the company had found four parcels of land for sale, but the owners would not sell. Not all of the refusals were due to price, Jordan noted -- some locals don’t want a slaughterhouse in the neighborhood.

Jordan put the price of the project at $300 million.

The venture is another attempt to fill the gap in the nation’s kosher meat supply since the close of the Agriprocessors kosher slaughterhouse and meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa, following a May 2008 federal immigration raid. Although the facility has reopened under new ownership as Agristar Meat and Poultry, it is not producing as much kosher meat as its predecessor.

Update: More Details Here.

Comments

[jj]

perhaps the owners should get a do not list from rubbishcan and co.

[yidandahalf]

It's doomed, trust me. It won't go anywhere.

[FirstGenerationBavarianAmerican]

The question is, who is behind First American Farms? Someone hired a few 'stiffs' to make it sound like this is a company that already has going operations in other places.

[sage]

+++... who is behind First American Farms?+++

My bets are on Papa Aaron.

[Shmarya]

If it is a Rubashkin, it's probably Yossi and/or Gittle, with Aaron behind them as the secret man in control.

[Moshe in Israel]

For further information on the registrant, please see this link:

http://apps.sd.gov/applications/ST32Cprs/AllDocuments.aspx?&BID=DL021482&query=first+american

This information comes directly from the South Dakota Secretary of State.

[FirstGenerationBavarianAmerican]

Thanks, Moshe.

What is interesting is that this venture was incorporated May 13, 2010. There was an earlier incorporation (June 26th, 2006) that was later cancelled. One of the parties, with an address of Pine Island, MN is named on both applications:
http://apps.sd.gov/applications/ST32Cprs/AllDocuments.aspx?
&BID=DL011607&query=first+american

Its about an 80 mile day trip out in the country from St. Paul. Inquiring minds want to know!

[David]

Is there really enough demand for this? prices for cattle and chicken have been rising... not sure if it could be profitable.