Noem suggests Wholestone fight is losing South Dakota company

The battle around Wholestone Farms is driving prospective business out of South Dakota in accordance to Gov. Kristi Noem.

The governor made the opinions during a Tuesday interview with radio host Bill Zortman, the place she criticized many aspects of the opposition to the pork processing plant planned for northeastern Sioux Falls, which has led to a November ballot problem that could ban the construction and procedure of new slaughterhouses in just metropolis limits.

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“I consider that is sad,” Noem explained. “Because you move a ballot evaluate like this down right here, that puts just about every one project we do in South Dakota in jeopardy in the foreseeable future.”

A rendering of the Wholestone Farms pork processing plant planned for Sioux Falls.

Noem reported the combat was demonstrating firms in the point out that even if they satisfy all the prerequisites and system for years, “at the past moment just one human being can get mad, do a ballot petition and conclusion my enterprise and my investment decision.”

That is equivalent to the remarks manufactured by the Higher Sioux Falls Chamber of Commerce, which announced its formal opposition to the ballot evaluate this 7 days, as effectively as Christine Erickson, the executive director of the South Dakota Trucking Association and a former metropolis councilor.