Another Saskatchewan beef slaughter plant is in the works.
Organizers of Yellowhead Natural Beef are hoping to build a federally inspected facility that would supply Natural Valley’s processing plant in Wolseley, Sask.
Kathy Martin of Natural Valley said the relationship would be similar to the plant proposed for Neepawa, Man., which intends to slaughter cattle and send the meat to Wolseley for processing.
“If they are able to raise equity and (build the plant) we will work with them,” Martin said.
Henry Skjerven, a Yellowhead Natural Beef director who farms near Kandahar, Sask., said the original idea was to build a small slaughter facility somewhere along the Yellowhead Highway.
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“The economies of scale were a little larger than we had anticipated,” he said.
The organizers found they were looking at 52,000 head per year, which is when they started thinking about linking with Natural Valley.
Skjerven said the steering group has done feasibility studies, formed an interim board and is preparing to raise equity capital.
The plant could be operating as soon as the spring of 2006 or as late as spring 2007.
The location is yet to be determined.
