350 Jobs

This sounds like Sparta is in a PICKLE.

The question is do they make ethanol or keep 350 jobs.

I'm with Hormel on this one.

From Gannett Newspapapers.


Jul 8, 1:08 PM EDT
Wis. city's largest employer threatens to leave over ethanol
By RYAN J. FOLEY Associated Press Writer

SPARTA, Wis. (AP) -- Farmer David Rundahl looks around a field of pine trees and weeds on the edge of this western Wisconsin city and sees the perfect location for a $115 million ethanol plant.
He points to nearby railroad tracks and notes the rumble of cars on Interstate 90 - an ideal spot for shipping corn and fuel, making some farmers rich and reducing the country's dependence on foreign oil.
But the project proposed by Rundahl and others might come at a high price: Sparta's largest employer, a dairy processor located less than a half-mile down the tracks, is threatening to leave along with its 350 jobs if the plant is built. That would be an economic blow to Sparta, a town of 9,000 in the heart of dairy country.

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I think someone is getting rich fast and we have to pay for it.
Save the jobs.