Higher grain prices among agriculture events in 2007

In 2007, higher grain commodity prices emerged, while long-term developments in irrigation, special crop processing and renewal of the shuttered pork processing plant were among key events in area agriculture.

The pork processing plant has been leased to a Taiwanese group with an option to buy the operation. Tentative re-opening with between 70 and 100 employees is scheduled for February.

All four groups of shareholders and secured creditors voted to lease Moose Jaw Pork Packers for eight years with an option to buy any time within that period.

The plant has been closed since the fall of 2006, when a restructuring of the plant from a 2005 closing failed.