South Dakota Beef Industry Council (SDBIC) directors toured the Northern Beef Packers (NBP) facility in Aberdeen Tuesday, June 25, providing a first-hand look at the first meat processing plant in the nation to be built from the ground up in the past 30 years.
“It is a state-of-the-art plant,” says Gary Deering, Sturgis, S.D. rancher and SDBIC director. “It was very impressive. It’s exciting to have a packing plant of this level in South Dakota.”