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During its earliest days, cattlemen drove their longhorns to Omaha where they loaded their livestock onto Union Pacific train cars bound for markets in the east. Within thirty years, four major meat packing plants were operating at the South Omaha Stockyards and eventually overtook Chicago as the nation’s largest livestock market.

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The main nail in the South Omaha Packing coffin was without doubt was the New EPA regulations that went into effect in the early 70's.. It would had just cost to much to comply.

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Omaha Nebraska scholde be now known as the beef sate and we should be known as the corn sate

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(3:24 PM, 2/18/2023/2020's): Oh! And we've got (PBS's) WITF here, that's it.!.! (3:25 PM).

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