The North Carolina-based company that picked north-central Iowa’s Wright County to build a 240-million-dollar hog processing plant is being praised by many — and criticized by others. Jessica Mazour, a farm and environmental organizer with Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement, says residents in the Eagle Grove area need to stand up and be heard.

 

Prestage Farms originally wanted to build in the Mason City area but the plans fell through and now officials are looking to Wright County. While state officials tout the 900 promised jobs the plant will create, Mazour isn’t impressed.

 

Those who oppose the proposed facility plan to let their feelings be known  Monday morning at the Wright County Courthouse in Clarion.