How a meatpacking plant changed one Kansas town 40 years ago and left a Colorado community behind

Image: Local government officials and meatpacking executives shovel dirt at the groundbreaking of the meatpacking plant just outside Garden City in 1979. Image courtesy of Finney County Historical Society. Article by David Condos – Kansas News Service. The Fence Post – October 27, 2021.

Four decades ago, a town in Kansas and a town in Colorado competed to become home to a giant meatpacking plant that, at the time, was the largest of its kind in the world. Here’s what has happened to them since.

GARDEN CITY, Kan. — Drivers approaching this cattle city on Kansas 156 watch as the scenery changes from a patchwork of southwest Kansas crop fields, pastures and feedlots to a collage of suburban sprawl. […]

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