HAMPTON, IOWA – The Hampton, Iowa city council will consider showing support for a pork processing plant at a meeting tonight.
The Hampton city council and mayor will be holding their regular meeting Thursday night at 6 PM. On the agenda is an item of new business, which reads:
“The City of Hampton support of Franklin County Supervisors to begin negotiations with Prestage Farms”.
Franklin county supervisors have been in talks with Prestage Foods in recent weeks, since Mason City turned down the development. Currently, Hampton does not have the fresh water / sewage capacity to deal with needs of the $240 million plant, which would eventually process 20,000 hogs a day.
There was talk that some who oppose the development may travel to attend the meeting and offer “some guidance” to the council.
Did you here the good news prestage is comming to Hampton Iowa they will say so on July 5 2016 🙂
Hampton may be welcoming Prestage Foods, but the pork processor is looking at other suitors as well. Hampton ain’t the only girl that came to the dance looking for a boy friend and may be the least attractive of all. Time will tell.
Why don’t they build the stink factory in their own back yard? maybe they don’t like the smell
Prestage is coming to a town near us whether you like it or not. CAFO’s probably are coming too. Mason City will get the downside with no upside. Sharon Steckman was against this project in Mason City because she knew she would be pressured to toughen the regulations on CAFO’s and she didn’t want that fight.
Reg, define “near”. I think maybe 50-60 miles from MC is the closest it will end up. Not Hampton. I think Mrs. Steckman was against the pork plant because it would be an environmental disaster and Prestage would end up dominating MC within a few years. I predict that within a few years of opening, they would have demanded further tax breaks, paved parking lots, street fixes, etc … “or else”. The “or else” being laid off workers, plant closure, relocation, you name it. The slaughter industry has a history of robbing local government/taxpayers.
It they’re so fabulous, why don’t the Prestages of the world build them in their own back yards, where their families live, and breathe, and drink the water?
By the way is Beeds Lake safe to swim in
As of June 7 swimming is not recommended. E. coli levels are elevated. The Clear Lake beaches are safe at this time.
I went to Hampton last Tuesday to listen to Morgan Alexander.While we were sitting there in their nice city park we got a terrible smell of hog shit. Thank God it did not last long otherwise we would have had to leave.
The only thing any community considering this type of plant should look at is what has happened in other communities with these facilities. I don’t think any citizen from Marshalltown or Storm Lake will tell you that the plant was good for the community. It is always a valid reason to kill economic development if it will do more harm then good and if the people are asked to put their money up for something they don’t want.
Hampton wins and we lose.
Last time I visited Hampton I thought I had crossed the U S border into la raza.
So what? Those people work, buy homes, pay taxes and buy products just like everyone else.
Watch out Hampton………..Max is coming!
Caring requires character.
It shouldnt just be up to Hampton. Everyone in north central Iowa will feel the impact of more factory farms. These things destroy lives, hopes and dreams!
Pure baloney. Do you have some proof for you statements? I didn’t think so.
Iowa is full of families whose property values and quality oif life has been destroyed by these corporate owned hogs. Buying pork products hurts your fellow Iowans. Pork kills people.
It wasn’t JUST up to Hampton as the Franklin County Supervisors agreed as well. In the early 80’s there was going to be a processing plant between Hampton and Chapin, but that didn’t happen. This won’t either.
Seems like a non starter if they don’t have the water and sewage capacity. Maybe Prestage built that in the new plan to do a well and treat the sewage on site. We will see what happens but it will still have a major effect on all counties around Franklin County, and not a good one.
To expand, Hampton will not be the only town effected as Mason City was not going to be either. Somehow the added expenses to all School Districts where the employee’s will live need to be compensated for the added costs for english as a second language. There are more costs than that but let’s start there.
It’s already here. There are already other than english speakers in our schools now and it will only grow over time. To suggest that is a valid reason to kill economic growth is short sighted and ignorant.
With all the facts of the detriments to workers, community, environment/water, soil, air, and animal abuse, of animal factory farms and their counterpart animal slaughter operations, no person with a conscience would approve of the mess.
Go Hampton and good luck on your evaluation. Tell the outsiders and nay sayers to go home.
Exactly. If they don’t live there they shouldn’t get a vote or a voice in local business.
Yes we should. The explosion of the filthy, diseased and cruel factory farms across Iowa effects us all. It would be one thing if these corporate giants paid the true cost of doing business in our state, but they foul our waters and air, produce lethal disease, destroy our roads, deplete our vital aquifer, then turn around and demand corporate welfare from our hard earned cash. Prestage is not welcome in Iowa and we all have an obligation to stand up and shout it loud!
Try to prove your statements. You can’t do it because there are no facts behind what you say. Only lies and mis-directiion from people like you. Iowa is a agriculture state and if you don’t like it move out.
If Prestage gets taxpayers money anyone in the state has the right to express their opinion.
Yeah good point about the nay sayers and outsiders coming to Hampton to inform the citizens with the truth!