For more than a decade, southern Idaho’s cattle industry has been in need of a local processing solution, and CS Beef Packers — a joint venture between Simplot and Caviness Beef — plans to capitalize on that demand with efficiency, quality and right-sized growth.
A few miles south of Boise, Idaho, within eyeshot of an old, empty, beef-processing plant shut down more than a decade ago, a brand new beef complex stands as a beacon of hope for the region — a rare green-field construction project for a beef industry that needed an additional processing outlet in the Pacific Northwest.
That new facility, in Kuna, Idaho, emerged from a unique partnership between J.R. Simplot Co., the Boise-based food and agribusiness behemoth, and Hereford, Texas-based Caviness Beef Packers. The new company — named CS Beef Packers LLC — was unveiled in early 2015, and the industry has patiently awaited the opening of the plant.