A January 2008 business plan prepared by Agrifood Solutions International for Northern Beef Packers in Aberdeen offered this estimate of the construction costs then anticipated to put a slaughterhouse in operation by August 2012: As we well know, Northern Beef…
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When I first read about Daugaard Chief of Staff Dusty Johnson's comments contrasting the economic growth of the two Dakotas last week, I was puzzled as to why Johnson would think it necessary to tear down our northern neighbors' Bakken…
While South Dakota concentrates on recruiting gunmakers and failure-prone beef plants and mega-dairies to boost its economy, the Twin Cities continue to draw the big money. Here's the WonkBlog's take on metro-Minnesota's pretty good job opportunities: Minnesota unemployment usually tracks…
Speaking of jobs, Governor Dennis Daugaard has made a big deal of promoting jobs in science, technology, engineering, and math—the STEM jobs toward which we are supposed to retool our education system.... because who needs literature, anyway? But as with…
The Business Journals' On Numbers blog ranks U.S. governors on their states' job creation rates. South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard comes out 13th, with 16,200 more jobs in South Dakota than when he took office in January 2011. That's 900…
The Solar Foundation has mapped jobs created by the solar power industry in each state: Sunny California leads the nation in solar jobs, followed by Arizona. One would expect lots of solar power jobs in such sunny places. But #3…
Eagle Creek Software Services must be getting tired of working so hard trying to convince prospective employees to move their families out to Pierre. Company president Ken Behrendt says he'll bring 200 jobs to a new center in Vermillion and…