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Korean-American processors detail beef plans

by Allen , Posted to Fishing Buddy on 12/16/2010 11:35 AM | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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Korean-American processors detail beef plans




By CHRISTOPHER BJORKE, Bismarck Tribune | Posted: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 5:36 pm | (11) Comments


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buy this photo TOM STROMME/Tribune Russ Staiger, left, of the Bismarck Mandan Development Association met with Roger Hoyum, center, and Jack Dae Soo Kim on 12-15 afternoon after Hoyum and Kim announced plans to build a beef processing plant in central North Dakota.



 


 




A joint venture between Korean investors and North Dakota beef producers plans to process 1,250 head of cattle per day in central North Dakota, with most to be exported.


“This is a big deal economically,” said Roger Hoyum, the consultant managing the project for Kim & Price Corp. “This is a significant opportunity for new wealth to be infused into the strong economy in North Dakota.”



The company gets its name from Jack Dae Soo Kim, a South Korean businessman with a commodities background, and Bill Price, a North Dakota rancher who exports cattle to the Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan. They are looking at sites around Bismarck, Mandan, Jamestown and two rural locations for a processing facility that they hope to have in operation in 2012.




“North Dakota is the ideal place to produce quality beef,” Kim said. “North Dakota is the best state with high genetic quality.”




The facility, to be called North Dakota Beef Exporters, would employ about 500 people and export 60 percent of its products to South Korea and other Asian markets with the rest being sold in the United States. They hope to settle on a site within the next three to five months, and said they were considering existing structures as well as building a new plant.




Hoyum said the plant would be a “zero-discharge facility” and use methods to reduce the impact on the local environment.




“The facility we’re talking about building is not the facility that immediately pops into someone’s head,” Hoyum said.




The total project investment would be between $80 million and $100 million, he said.




Hoyum’s company, JDI Contracts Inc., is a Minnesota construction and management consultant that handles industrial and commercial projects, including a recent environmental addition to the Coal Creek power plant near Stanton. They became involved in the beef project earlier this year.




Kim said that Korean consumers are more discerning about meat quality and more concerned about what part of the United States their beef comes from. The American beef industry produces mostly for domestic consumers and do not cater to foreign preferences, he said, and the North Dakota project would allow processors to control the quality of the product at each stage of production, from ranches to consumer products.




“We’ll be producing a totally different quality product,” Kim said.




Hoyum and Kim said the project originated with a 2006 North Dakota agricultural trade mission.




The group discussed their plans at a meeting of the North Dakota Stockmen’s Association in Bismarck on Wednesday.




“We feel it would be a positive opportunity for North Dakota producers,” said Scott Ressler, environmental services director for the association. “It’s an opportunity to increase our profits.”




Hoyum said the company has commitments for 450,000 head of cattle per year from North Dakota and surrounding states. Ressler said he expected state producers to adapt their operations for the increased demand.




(Reach reporter Christopher Bjorke at 250-8261 or chris.bjorke@bismarcktribune.com.)
“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.” ~ Mark Twain
Re: Korean-American processors detail beef plans
by BDub on 12/16/2010 12:03 PM | Reply #1 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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This has been in the works for some time. I am not sure how good the jobs will be or who will fill them. But it sounds like lots of jobs.

I wonder exactly how "zero discharge" works.
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by Allen on 12/16/2010 12:07 PM | Reply #2 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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Zero discharge suggests holding ponds where liquid waste is placed and then eventually land farmed or the sludge is hauled away.
“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.” ~ Mark Twain
Re: Korean-American processors detail beef plans
by BDub on 12/16/2010 12:13 PM | Reply #3 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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I would suppose that Jamestown will get this plant as they have lost lots of jobs. I am not sure that Bismarck and Mandan could supply all the workers. It will boost the economy where ever it is located.
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by hopeandchangethis on 12/16/2010 12:17 PM | Reply #4 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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What kind of people will this attract? Think low riders.
Please not near Bismarck!!
Wonderful Reagan quote that says it like it is! "It isn't that Liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so much that isn't so."
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by sportsman | on 12/16/2010 12:33 PM | Reply #5 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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BDub Said:
I would suppose that Jamestown will get this plant as they have lost lots of jobs. I am not sure that Bismarck and Mandan could supply all the workers.
You think Jamestown could supply the workers but not the Bismarck Metro area?

There will definitelty be a change to the community wherever it goes.

It's not that bad.
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by mauserG33-40 on 12/16/2010 1:38 PM | Reply #6 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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sportsman | Said:
BDub Said:
I would suppose that Jamestown will get this plant as they have lost lots of jobs. I am not sure that Bismarck and Mandan could supply all the workers.
You think Jamestown could supply the workers but not the Bismarck Metro area?

There will definitelty be a change to the community wherever it goes.
The good will out weigh the bad.

More jobs,another market for the ND beef producer,Many side job benefits like more trucking,more housing needed thus helping the realestate market.

To keep a 1200  head kill it takes a lot of cattle on feed  to meet the 1200 a day kill.

Thus better markets for gain and feed stuffs.  

This is very true and it is time for the ND producer to get paid for it.

  “North Dakota is the best state with high genetic quality.” 

 
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by Pat'sPlace on 12/16/2010 1:47 PM | Reply #7 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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I had a friend that was a meat cutter at a facility like this....he made very good money! He got paid on production, not by the hour...
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by Pheasant 54 on 12/16/2010 1:54 PM | Reply #8 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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Well Cloverdale is going to have its hands full retaining workers if this is close to BIsmarck .

If you look at the headlines in some of the cities where there are large plants like this,
large headaches come with it . You think the roofing labor issue was bad , wait until this hits
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by mauserG33-40 on 12/16/2010 5:07 PM | Reply #9 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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Pheasant 54 Said:

Well Cloverdale is going to have its hands full retaining workers if this is close to BIsmarck .

If you look at the headlines in some of the cities where there are large plants like this,
large headaches come with it . You think the roofing labor issue was bad , wait until this hits

So Pheasant what are you saying?  Any time there is a growth in population there is an increase in both good and bad people.  Tell me how do roofers and meat plant workers compare to others trades in your opinipion?   I have been in many towns that have large meat plants,the stores grow,the churches grow,and about eveything else just as the police dept grows.  Employment increases everwhere. 

I might be mistaken but that is why we the US have free and open growth to all. 

Do you feel growth should be only for a choosen few?   Fargo has crime in it but no large meat kill plants,must be the roofers, right.
 
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by BDub on 12/16/2010 5:13 PM | Reply #10 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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What I was trying to point out is that Jamestown most likely needs the jobs worse than  Bismarck-Mandan. Thus likely a better bid for the business. I am pretty sure that both combined could not locally supply the workers. Cloverdale has a tough time finding help. It may pay good but the working conditions are not for everyone.
sportsman | Said:
BDub Said:
I would suppose that Jamestown will get this plant as they have lost lots of jobs. I am not sure that Bismarck and Mandan could supply all the workers.
You think Jamestown could supply the workers but not the Bismarck Metro area?

There will definitelty be a change to the community wherever it goes.
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by mauserG33-40 on 12/16/2010 5:39 PM | Reply #11 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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BDub I spent last week in the Willison,Ray and Stanley,area and I sure didn't have the only out of state plate.  I am sure may non locals  will have to fill the work force for this plant.    Both bad and good but ND right now has the jobs, most out of staters coming to ND that I talked had nothing but good to say about the local people ND. Given the chance this plant will be a big asset to ND.
 
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by Kaptain on 12/16/2010 5:51 PM | Reply #12 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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The biggest question should be, where are they going to get 1200 top genetic quality cattle a day from.
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by mauserG33-40 on 12/16/2010 5:58 PM | Reply #13 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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Kaptain Said:
The biggest question should be, where are they going to get 1200 top genetic quality cattle a day from.
You will see finishing  feedyards built in a hurry if the market is there.   The feeder cattle numbers in ND are there the fat cattle nummbers are not because the feeders are shipped south and east out of ND ( No packing Plants).  ND has the feed  supply and it will get larger with the bulding of finishing feedyards. 

 
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by IntroC on 12/16/2010 6:41 PM | Reply #14 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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BDub Said:
What I was trying to point out is that Jamestown most likely needs the jobs worse than  Bismarck-Mandan. Thus likely a better bid for the business. I am pretty sure that both combined could not locally supply the workers. Cloverdale has a tough time finding help. It may pay good but the working conditions are not for everyone.

I don't know  who told you Cloverdale pays good whoever it was was blowing some serious smoke up you know what. The reason they have a tough time finding help is because the crap pay and the reason they are shipping in immigrants to fill positions.
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by sportsman | on 12/16/2010 6:55 PM | Reply #15 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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IntroC Said:
I don't know  who told you Cloverdale pays good whoever it was was blowing some serious smoke up you know what.
+1
I guess "good" is relative. Good compared to what?

It's not that bad.
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by mauserG33-40 on 12/16/2010 7:01 PM | Reply #16 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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IntroC Said:
BDub Said:
What I was trying to point out is that Jamestown most likely needs the jobs worse than  Bismarck-Mandan. Thus likely a better bid for the business. I am pretty sure that both combined could not locally supply the workers. Cloverdale has a tough time finding help. It may pay good but the working conditions are not for everyone.

I don't know  who told you Cloverdale pays good whoever it was was blowing some serious smoke up you know what. The reason they have a tough time finding help is because the crap pay and the reason they are shipping in immigrants to fill positions.
Crappy pay to one person might be good pay to another.  With the number of unemployed nation wide crappy pay might be better than none and sitting on thier azz living off the government.  Cloverdale is shipping in immigrants?  Are they here legally or just more of that smoke?
 
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by IntroC on 12/16/2010 7:07 PM | Reply #17 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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mauserG33-40 Said:
IntroC Said:
BDub Said:
What I was trying to point out is that Jamestown most likely needs the jobs worse than  Bismarck-Mandan. Thus likely a better bid for the business. I am pretty sure that both combined could not locally supply the workers. Cloverdale has a tough time finding help. It may pay good but the working conditions are not for everyone.

I don't know  who told you Cloverdale pays good whoever it was was blowing some serious smoke up you know what. The reason they have a tough time finding help is because the crap pay and the reason they are shipping in immigrants to fill positions.
Crappy pay to one person might be good pay to another.  With the number of unemployed nation wide crappy pay might be better than none and sitting on thier azz living off the government.  Cloverdale is shipping in immigrants?  Are they here legally or just more of that smoke?


Good point about the crap pay. As far as workers being here legally... I would hope so.
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by mauserG33-40 on 12/16/2010 7:13 PM | Reply #18 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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by BDub on 12/16/2010 7:15 PM | Reply #19 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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Let me clarify what I was trying to say.
I am fully aware of Cloverdale. I was referring to the proposed plant. You can bet that most of the workers will come from out of state.
sportsman | Said:
IntroC Said:
I don't know  who told you Cloverdale pays good whoever it was was blowing some serious smoke up you know what.
+1
I guess "good" is relative. Good compared to what?
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by sportsman | on 12/16/2010 9:04 PM | Reply #20 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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BDub Said:
 I was referring to the proposed plant.
Has anyone seen any proposed salary listings? I have heard about the types of jobs they will be looking for and what some of these types of jobs pay in other states but nothing about salaries they are planning to pay here. Location should not be that big of an issue if they need X floor workers and Y management.

It's not that bad.
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