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Lottery Grant Provides 200 New IBP Inc. Jobs
The IBP plant at 2700 23rd Ave. in Council Bluffs is one of the company's three pork slaughtering and processing sites in Iowa. IBP officials used a $738,000 Iowa community economic betterment account grant to increase the work force at the plant by…
Lawmakers Restrict Grants To Companies
A worker at the IBP pork plant in Council Bluffs processes meat. State legislators have been critical of a grant to the firm for the plant.
Bluffs Plant Reopens As 325 Report To Work
IBP Inc. employees were ready for work Tuesday morning. About 200 reported for hog slaughtering operations at the plant, located at 2700 Twenty-third Ave. IBP announced reopening plans in March, but a targeted mid-June starting date was delayed to…
Mid-June Start Set For Pork Plant
Robert Peterson, IBP Inc. chairman, shakes the hand of Gov. Terry Branstad during a Saturday press conference. Branstad was on hand for the plant reopening announcement and subsequent tour.
Victor Iowa Pack To Close Plant - Announcement 'Shocks' C.B. Officials
Scheduled To Close . . . is the Victor Iowa Pack pork plant at 2700 Twenty-third Ave. Company officials say operations will cease next week. The photo shows the back of the plant where trucks unload hogs.
New Plant: 450 Workers, Payroll Of $7.5 Million
Welcoming . . . Ben Goehring, president of Goehring Meat Inc., to Council Bluffs is Mayor David Christiansen, standing. Gov. Robert Ray also attended the press conference held at Lakeshore Country Club.
Great Plains Beef To Build $2 Million Addition
Construction Of A New Facility . . . for boxed beef storage and handling, shown at the far left of this artist's conception, will begin Monday at Great Plains Beef. The $2 million facility, when completed in January, will employ about 50 people and…
Welding Pipes
Charles Murphy of San Antonio, Tex., and Robert Hicks of Omaha, a steamfitter, work on one of the thousands of feet of pipe that are being installed at Beefland International's new plant here.
Plasterers At Work
Plasterers put the finishing touches on the walls of Beefland's large cooler. The plaster is used as a finish over the layers of heavy insulation. The cooler is designed to hold about a million pounds of product.
Security Guard
Beefland International will keep guards on duty at the plant on a 24-hour basis. All vehicles are checked at the main gate of the $4 million plus beef processing operation here.
Special Treatment For Beefland Plant's Waste
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Dehydration Plant - This large piece of machinery at Beefland International will dry and sterilize paunch manure from the plant's operation and turn it into a commercial cattle feed. The equipment, after it is installed, will be enclosed in a…
Dehydration Plant - This large piece of machinery at Beefland International will dry and sterilize paunch manure from the plant's operation and turn it into a commercial cattle feed. The equipment, after it is installed, will be enclosed in a…
Beefland Hiring Back Its Employees
A Helicopter Zeroes In . . . to lift a 2,600-pound motor from an aerator in the lagoon area at Beefland International Tuesday. But the helicopter just didn't have enough 'umph' to get the job done. Plant Supt. Carl Summers said another method will be…
Petitions Ask Immediate City Action To Halt Odor
Youngsters On Avenue B . . . were stopping motorists Wednesday and asking them to sign a petition which calls for immediate action on odors in the city's west side.
That's A Lot Of Bull, Man
Dan Compton, plant manager at Beefland International, is dwarfed by this massive bull in front of the plant Saturday. The promotional steer is made of fiberglass, weighs 2,000 pounds and is 14 feet high and 24 feet long. It was removed from atop a…
Odor Control Device Like Perfumed Whiff - At Beefland Plant
Four Atomizers . . . containing propylene-glycol based fluid are hooked up to emission stacks in the dehydration plant at Beefland. The atomizers spray a fine mist into the stacks to mask any possible odor from the stack gasses.
Beefland gets First Customers
Frank Seidler Jr. and Darrell Seidler, who operate Seidler Brothers' Feed Lot on Route 4, receive a check for the first steer slaughtered at Beefland International from William Shannon, vice president in charge of procurement. The steer was…