A Happy End To the Beef Plant Fiasco

[TDaleBeavers]

http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070620/NEWS01/70620008

Windsor Foods has bought the defunct beef plant facilty near Oakland in Yalobusha County, and is beginning renovations of the building with plans to eventually hire 400 employees. When I was at Ole Miss, I observed many people drove into Oxford from Water Valley and Yalobusha County because of the lack of jobs there. This is great news, and I am very happy to see this facility going back into use with these jobs!

[wilebill]

Happy may be a little optimistic. It still cost the taxpayers over $50M for those 400 jobs and still no heads at the state level have rolled over this boondoggle.

[TheKing]

Beavers...i always knew you were a tool

but your 'campaign site' proves it even more...

BWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[58ford]

The "Comparing the Candidates" page is a study in mudslinging.
I never studied mudslinging, I picked it up on the streets.
But, you're right, some of these guys have at least some post graduate work if not a masters.

[Pop]

http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070616/BIZ/706160332/1005


Windsor purchased the 140,000-square-foot Oakland facility from Community Bank. Neither would discuss financial arrangements.


Gee I wonder why??? :smt011

Maybe not to rub salt in the tax payers wounds?

[SoMissTV]

Or because it's a private transaction between two private businesses.

[Fish-Bait]

I planted a beef plant one time, it died though.

[mac]

It's good that it's finally going to go to use and provide some jobs, but it still didn't save us any money. I still don't understand why we weren't hanging some crooked politicians in the streets after this happened. How do they screw us over, get caught, and then weasel out of it with no problem?

[TDaleBeavers]

I do not at all like that the taxpayers had to foot the bill for this fiasco. I was simply referring to the human cost of all of those jobs being lost when the Mississippi Beef Processers Plant first close. This plant was, perhaps exaggeratingly, as the "Nissan of rural Mississippi", and the effect was terrible on the community. I am pleased that some of these jobs are finally coming back.

[TheKing]

The "Comparing the Candidates" page is a study in mudslinging.

i find it interesting that that very same page is actually named 'donations.html'

that suggests to me that there was once upon a time a page that was planned to be set up so we can donate money to this cute little mug

i mean...i would trust him with my $100 bucks.

http://www.beavers07.com/Image004.jpg

[Bluesman]

I wouldn't be counting chicks before the eggs hatch here. True enough the beef plant was not managed properly but the market hasn't changed any in the past few years as far as numbers of cull cattle (animals no longer needed for or are too old for reproduction or that are injured and cannot breed) in the state and therefore the previous warnings from MSU and Alcorn and MAFES should be heeded. Unless this plant diversifies and will process other cattle such as veal, table beef, etc. instead of just cull cattle I don't think it is going to do as well as some would have you to believe.

This will only be a HAPPY ending if the plant becomes successful and truly creates/retains jobs and if Lester Spell gets the boot in this election.