Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
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POWELL — Forward Cody has received a $2.2 million grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration to support an expansion of Wyoming Legacy Meats in Cody. Along with a $553,108 loan from Pinnacle Bank, the funding will build a new 12,000 square foot expansion, which will be able to process about 75 head per day. The plant is projected to create 50 new jobs, with an average wage of $18 per hour. In the past decade, most of the regional meat processing in the state shut down, leaving producers dependent on large, out-of-state packing p...
POWELL — Local sugar beet farmers who were hit with losses in 2018 and 2019 due to poor weather are receiving some support from the federal government. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildfire and Hurricane Indemnity Program-Plus (WHIP+) recently provided $285 million to beet growers across the country. Western Sugar Cooperative — made up of more than 850 growers and shareholders in the Powell, Lovell and Heart Mountain areas, along with others in Wyoming, Montana, Colorado and Nebraska — received $69 million of that allocation. The dis...