Posted by CNKS on April 12, 2008 at 17:58:08 from (216.144.104.128):
In Reply to: Re: OT End of an Era posted by Gary,kansas on April 12, 2008 at 17:08:59:
World's largest beef packing plant in Garden City, KS, and the 2nd largest in Dodge City employ several thousand workers, of course most are from Mexico. Garden and Dodge are about 50% Hispanic, up from about 10-15% 34 years ago when I moved here, before the major packing plants arrived. Overall population has more than doubled. Corn and grain sorghum grown in this area, some corporate, some independent -- actually a LOT of independent, keep the cattle in the feedlots fed and the local economy going. Agriculture is alive and well in this part of the country, IF the prices stay up. Of course the feedlots are complaining about high grain costs. Local farmer/rancher named Brookover started all this in the 50's. So I guess you can blame Garden City. My dad went broke in south Texas in 1949, lost most of his vegetable farm and 3/4 of his equipment. Agriculture has it's ups and downs, always changing. Changes are not always bad. Now if our glorious KDHE head would let us build the two coal fired power plants, everything would be swell.
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