The horizon south of Garden City, Kansas, will get a new addition soon. Ground was broken last week on the $235 million Meadowlark dairy processing plant, reports The Garden City Telegram.Governor Sam Brownback, in town for the groundbreaking ceremony, was thrilled about the new facility, saying: “We’ve heard in the past from dairies interested in Kansas that a limiting factor is the proximity of a milk processing plant. That will no longer be a problem.”
Meadowlark Dairy Nutrition, a subsidiary of Dairy Farmers of America, will build the dairy on 156 acres on the east side of U.S. Highway 83. The processing plant will be built on city-owned land near the Jameson Energy Center. The huge new plant will include milk receiving and cream load-out, raw milk processing, pasteurized processing, milk evaporation, milk drying, filling and packaging, dry warehousing, shipping, support and utility spaces, sanitation corridors, office space and employee wellness areas.
