The biggest — literally — industrial development story of 2016 sprouted into view on Garden City’s south side as work progressed on a more than quarter-billion dollar industrial project.
Work began in late 2015 on the $235 million Dairy Farmers of America Meadowlark Dairy plant, a 321,000-square-foot facility that anticipates processing 83 truckloads of raw milk — about 4 million pounds — per day from dairy farms in southwest Kansas, turning the milk into about 85,000 tons of powdered milk annually that would fill 102 intermodal containers each week.
Alan McEntee, DFA project manager, said earlier this month that the plant is on schedule and should be fully operational in September.
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