South Dakota Interim Agriculture Secretary Larry Rhoden says he’s been working with State Veterinarian Dustin Oedekoven to find homes for the excess supply of pork in the state. “South Dakota State University has a processing facility they use on campus and they were just one of many contacts we made to find alternative markets for hogs. Some people felt like it was an exercise in futility, because these local processing facilities like SDSU only do a handful of hogs each day. I think every hog that we process means one less hog in a landfill.” Rhoden speaks to the reopening of the Sioux Falls pork processing plant. “They opened more than one week ago to get up and running. I know they were taking hogs for processing last Monday. This week, they plan on ramping up the process. I don’t know when they’ll be at full capacity. The point is they’re taking hogs, which is a huge step forward for us.”
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