Cheese Plant Expansion Signals South Dakota Dairy Poised For Growth

South Dakota officials have been working for decades to rebuild the state’s dairy industry, and now they’re seeing results.

One of the state’s biggest cheese plants is expanding, tripling its production capacity to make it not only the largest plant in South Dakota, but one of the biggest in the U.S.

Government officials and company leaders were in Lake Norden late last month for an official ground breaking celebration at the Agropur cheese and whey plant where construction is already started to make the plant capable of processing more than 9 million pounds of milk per day.

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