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Prestage Foods evaluating other pork plant sites

Prestage Foods of Iowa continues to evaluate sites for its proposed pork processing plant.

Prestage spokesperson Summer Lanier tells Brownfield they met recently with officials in Franklin County in north-central Iowa.

“We are in the process of evaluating other sites in both Iowa and the adjoining states, and Franklin County is just one of many sites that are part of that search and evaluation process,” Lanier says.

Karen Mitchell of the Franklin County Development Association says county officials requested the meeting with Prestage. She says they wanted to discuss plant specifics and what would be required from the company and county to make such a project viable.

Earlier this month, the Mason City, Iowa city council rejected plans for the plant. Prestage officials say it will employ as many as two-thousand people.