Location
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Physical Location:
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Business Highway 2, East Grand Forks, MN
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Mailing Address:
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P.O. Box 357, East Grand Forks, MN 56721
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Capacity
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Annual Beet Slice
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2,300,000 tons
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Average Beet Slice per day in campaign
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9,300 tons
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Annual Sugar Production
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8,300,000 cwt.
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Average sugar production per day in campaign
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26,000 cwt.
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Number of Slice Campaign Days
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250 days
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Number of Juice Campaign Days
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50-70 days
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History
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Year Built :
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1926
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Major Renovations/upgrades/additions:
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1998 - Tower Diffuser
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2000 - Juice Purification
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Employment
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Number
of year round employees :
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228
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Number of campaign employees :
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75 |
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Total number of employees:
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303
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Agricultural Information
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Number of shareholders producing:
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618
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Number of acres planted:
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108,964 acres
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Tons of beets produced:
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2,190,386 tons
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Piling Locations:
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EGF, Ardoch, Oslo, Alvarado, Argyle, Voss.
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Packaging / Warehousing
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Number of different labels and products packaged:
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50 and 100 pound bags, and totes
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Hundredweight packaged :
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2.35 Million cwt. packaged
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Hundredweight bulk shipments:
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5.95 Million cwt.
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By-products sold annually
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Bulk Pulp pellets:
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123,000 tons (cattle feed in Europe and Japan)
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Molasses:
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173,000 tons (cattle feed, fermentation and binding agent)
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Community
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Size of Community:
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7,000
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