Senators Klobuchar and Smith Celebrated the Opening of the State-of-the-Art Meat Processing Plant

Senator Amy Klobuchar and Senator Tina Smith spoke at the grand opening and ribbon cutting for the new Minnesota Farmers Union (MFU) meat processing facility in Staples on Tuesday, August 18.

Addressing the shortage of local meat processing facilities, which became particularly acute during the pandemic, MFU pursued establishing a meat processing facility in the west-central region of the state, where there was not a USDA-inspected facility in close proximity for farmers...

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