The megaproducer now oversees 1,100 workers from its gleaming headquarters on the prairie, five miles from the revitalized Mercer County seat. Now young people can go back home and have a viable income. Mercer County's population is increasing for the first time since the turn of the century. Across the road, PSF built an apartment complex equipped with central air conditioning and an outdoor swimming pool. The megaproducer also donated the concrete for new sidewalks in the bustling town square.
Businesses occupy nearly every storefront in the town center.
In the mid-1980s there wasn't a single bank in town. Now, there are three. PSF officials know that industrialization is changing the rural way of life, and they are proud of it. We've got to look at alternative models of production to provide that way of life. Scott Dye said PSF's arrival has polarized the Lincoln Township community between corporate farming's friends and foes.