Location
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Address:
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2500 North 11th Street, Moorhead, MN 56560
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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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18,500 cwt.
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Number of Campaign Days :
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250 - 275 days
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History
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Year Built :
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1948
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Major Renovations/upgrades/additions:
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1990 - Replaced rotary drum filters with Putsch membrane presses |
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2002 - Factory Automation Phase I
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2003 - Factory Automation Phase II
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2003 - Waste Water Pond Cover Installation
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Employment
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Number
of year round employees:
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232
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Number of campaign employees:
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52
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Total number of employees:
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284
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Agricultural Information
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Number of shareholders producing:
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600
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Number of acres planted:
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101,849 acres
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Tons of beets produced:
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1,964,552 tons
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Piling Locations:
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Moorhead, Casselton, Amenia, Kindred, Perley, Felton, Sabin, C-W, Glyndon, Hitterdal
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Packaging / Warehousing
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Number of different labels and products packaged:
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275 to 300 different products
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Hundredweight packaged:
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2.5 Million cwt. packaged
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Hundredweight bulk shipments:
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2 Million cwt.
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By-products sold annually
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Bulk Pulp pellets :
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89,000 tons (cattle feed in Europe and Japan)
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Molasses:
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85,000 tons (cattle feed, fermentation and binding agent)
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Community
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Size of Community:
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32,000
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