Location
|
| Physical
Location: |
Highway 81 North,
Hillsboro, ND |
| Mailing
Address: |
RR 2, Box 42, Hillsboro,
ND 58045 |
| |
Capacity
|
|
Annual Beet Slice |
2,000,000 tons |
|
Average Beet Slice per day in campaign |
8,200 tons |
|
Annual Sugar Production |
7,500,000 cwt. |
|
Average sugar production per day in campaign |
21,500 cwt. |
| Number
of Slice Campaign Days |
250 days
|
| Number
of Juice Campaign Days |
80 – 90 days
|
| |
History
|
| Year
Built: |
1973
|
| Major Renovations/upgrades/additions:
|
|
1997 - Factory Expansion, (new diffuser, carb, water treatment)
1998 - Molasses Desugarization Plant
|
|
Employment
|
| Number of year round employees:
|
235 |
| Number of campaign employees:
|
51 |
| Total
number of employees: |
286 |
| |
Agricultural Information
|
| Number of
shareholders producing: |
492 |
| Number of
acres planted: |
70,757 acres |
| Tons of
beets produced: |
1,402,421 tons |
| Piling
Locations: |
Hillsboro, Midway, Ada (north), Ada
(west), Waukon, Reynolds. |
| |
Packaging / Warehousing
|
Number of
different labels and products packaged: |
24 lables, 4 pound packages |
| Hundredweight
packaged: |
1 Million cwt. packaged
|
| Hundredweight
bulk shipments: |
6.5 Million cwt. |
| |
By-products sold annually
|
| Bulk Pulp
pellets: |
96,000 tons (cattle feed
in USA, Europe and Japan) |
| Molasses: |
100,000 tons (cattle
feed & fermentation) |
|
Community
|
| Size of
Community: |
1,500 |
