Firms mull locating meat packing plant here

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

With two companies considering partnering for a 300-job business just outside of Mountain Home, the Elmore County Planning and Zoning Commission began a process last week to clean up and clarify the appropriate zoning ordinances for the business.

Mountain Home is one of two sites in Idaho under consideration for a major meat packing plant/slaughterhouse/rendering plant. Currently, Idaho does not have a slaughterhouse for cattle. Ranchers must truck their animals to either eastern Washington or northern Utah, which adds roughly $50 a head in costs to a rancher.

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Watch elmore find some way to keep them out. Better start somewhere with this economy and this would be a start. Better for the ranchers, better for us. Win,Win deal. Commissioners need to get off their butts and get this company in here. Not only that, how come the city never went back and attempted to try to get the 2 year college in here after from what I understand, a certain ex mayor said no to it? How come nothing but clothing stores, bars and churches are allowed in this town any longer?

-- Posted by midea on Wed, Jul 25, 2012, at 10:17 AM
The old money men that run Mtn. Home will never let anything they can't make money on for themselves be allowed anywhere near town know matter how good it would be for the comunity, or how many jobs it would create.. Just a fact and it has been going on for decades.

-- Posted by MMM71 on Wed, Jul 25, 2012, at 6:14 PM
I am kind of new around here (three years), but it seems to me that the "powers that be" would be much better off - not to mention all of us that seem to have been looking for work FOREVER around here - if there were 200 to 300 more "local" folks with money in their pockets looking to spend that cash in Mountain Home!

It just makes more sense to have those living in and around Mountain Home working and spending their money here - otherwise, those looking to get their palms greased will eventually have to settle for manure on their hands.

-- Posted by Offgrid on Wed, Jul 25, 2012, at 9:23 PM
I agree totally. Get them in here and begin to provide some jobs to people. What is so frigging hard about that. Not just this company, they need to start getting and enticing and luring others in here also. Need to get a base for this town to stand on. I have lived here for over thirty years now, and this town has done nothing but go backwards. So sad. What a legacy for prior mayors and commissioners, huh? I would feel ashamed to be sitting in their seats, and they rightly so, should be.

-- Posted by midea on Wed, Jul 25, 2012, at 9:36 PM
MMM71, you hit the nail on the head. 40 years for us and still the same old same old. Mountain Home is in the dark ages, all because the commissioners sit on their buts. Micron wanted to put the plant out here also and they nixed that one found a good excuse not to let them. Now look at the price of our homes down the tubes school system down the tubes. I remember when McDonald's wanted to come in, they stopped that also. Finley let it happen. I could go on and on and on.

It is just ignorance!

-- Posted by Green Eyed Lady on Thu, Jul 26, 2012, at 10:02 PM

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