Promised vs. Produced Tracker · South Dakota · updated Sep 2026

South Dakota has been promised 1 factory since 2017. It is not producing yet.

28th of 32 states by announced capital · fewer than three promises, not ranked by share producing

1 promise · $1B announced · 0 producing · 1 not yet producing

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Smithfield Foods Sioux Falls Processing Facility · $1.3B · Not yet producingSmithfield Foods Sioux Falls…
producing not yet producing cancelled or renegotiatedmark area · announced capitalSites placed at the town · the largest promises are named · a mark opens its row

South Dakota, promise by promise

Largest announced capital first. Every row links the announcement and the latest status it was built from.

announcement to promised first output past the promised date, not producing producing × promise cancelled or renegotiated

  1. Smithfield Foods Sioux Falls Processing Facility

    Food and Beverage · SD · screened

    $1.3B · jobs unconfirmed · announced Feb 2026 · promised 2028-Q4 · first output: not yet

    sources · promise investors.smithfieldfoods.com · status hpj.com

    Not yet producingdue in 2y 2m

Dates follow the announcement's own precision: a year with no month is drawn at mid-year, a quarter at its middle month. Checked V1 means each figure was confirmed against one public source; V2 means two independent sources. Corrections after publication are logged with a reason.

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Rows: Promised vs. Produced Tracker, Screen stage, promotable rows at the $1B or 200 direct jobs floor (162 rows across 32 states, screened 2026-09-10) · Every row is tier P: extracted and schema-checked at Screen, not yet verified. · 162 of 162 rows carry both a promise source and a status source · map: Census cartographic boundaries via us-atlas, AlbersUSA · site coordinates placed at the town by hand · bars and marks drawn from the rows, no chart library