Honey was identified as a potential industry for both North and South Dakota. Anyone else find any interesting new industry for either state. Or even possibly something new to add to an existing industry? Canola is one for North Dakota (if it hasn't come by then).
For North Dakota I found soybeans, corn and wheat are the top 3 crops. There was also mention of cattle/calves and sugar beets. At least the last 2 we already have. I expect Kansas or Nebraska to bring corn though. Possibly even one of those 2 brings wheat as well. We'll see. I also found this very old list that could be a guideline as its from 2011. But still worth looking into.
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For South Dakota, agriculture is also stated that its the state's number one industry. The top five for it are cattle, corn, soybeans, wheat and hogs. Its pretty similar to North Dakota. Cattle we have so lets hope new a new prefab or 2 there. Corn and Wheat should be in before the Dakota's come. So perhaps a couple new prefabs though. Both farm and processing facility. Hogs must come eventually. We can't just have cattle to haul around. At some point, poultry also has to make the game. There are tons of breeders for it. Between those 3, we need a processing plant. SCS can easily do what they do in ETS2 and not allow livestock to come in but we can get things going out to export, distribution centers and cold storage (if they make them). Missouri has a very very cool underground cold storage that needs to make ATS. So I expect cold storage will become a depot someday. Well need a few above ground ones as well. Not all of them are below grade.
Now there are some things that would be nice to see the Dakota's take advantage of once they come. There are some things that should be in place before hand. I mentioned corn, wheat and cattle are a few. Oil/gas is another. I expect Texas to take things up a notch there. One thing I'd like to see come with Texas are contractor type depots. The Texas microsite mentions Oil Fields Services. I sure hope this means companies that stage oil/gas equipment to push out to oil well sites. These type of companies are very wide spread where there are oil sites.
It would be nice to get Lowe's as a national competitor for Home Store but regionally, Menards must come to split up the dominance for both Home Depot and Lowe's. Kansas could be the first state to bring Menards. There enough of them to make sure Menards make ATS for the MidWest. SCS can even go back into Wyoming to add one. Casper, Gillette and Cheyenne has them.
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The Dakota's are a ways out but I think they could more interesting states that the surface stuff reveals.