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Location
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Physical Location:
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Highway 75 South, Crookston Minnesota
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Mailing Address:
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P.O. Box 600, Crookston, MN 56716
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Capacity
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Annual Beet Slice
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1,500,000 tons
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Average Beet Slice per day in campaign
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5,900 tons
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Annual Sugar Production
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4,500,000 cwt.
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Average sugar production per day in campaign
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19,000 cwt.
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Number of Campaign Days
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250 days
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History
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Year Built:
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1954
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Major Renovations/upgrades/additions:
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1999 - Diffuser Upgrade
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2000 - Beet Feeder Wheel
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2002 - Horizontal Crystallization Upgrade
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2003 - New Cossette & Bulk Scale
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Employment
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Number of year round employees:
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160
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Number of campaign employees:
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100
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Total number of employees:
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260
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Agricultural Information
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Number of shareholders producing:
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302
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Number of acres planted:
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59,794 acres
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Tons of beets produced:
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1,284,934 tons
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Piling Locations:
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Crookston, Nielsville, Warren, Scandia, Eldred, O'Meara
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Packaging / Warehousing
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Number of different labels and products packaged:
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Pulp (2) Sugar 32
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Hundredweight packaged:
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1.5 Million cwt. packaged
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Hundredweight bulk shipments:
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3 Million cwt.
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By-products sold annually
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Bulk Pulp pellets :
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77,000 tons (cattle feed in Europe and Japan)
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Packaged Pulp pellets:
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16,000 tons
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Molasses:
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85,000 tons (cattle feed, fermentation and binding agent, Iams pet food, elk farms, deer farms)
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Community
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Size of Community:
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9,000
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