As we continue our discussion on the history of the Sioux Falls Stockyards, local processing plants, and the folks who made it happen, a common question I get is, “What happened to make it all disappear?”
That is a more than valid ask, and if the reader will journey with me, I’ll do my best to provide a bit of reason for the rapid change in our livestock marketing industry, beginning with the River Markets Group.
This was an organization comprised of terminal markets, the vast majority located along a river. Reason? Because that is where the packing plants were located and the markets, such as Sioux Falls, were a product of those plants…