Jobs and money follow new agricultural processing in SD

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Bart Pfankuch

South Dakota News Watch

MITCHELL, S.D. – Several cranes tower above a busy construction site along state Highway 37 south of Mitchell where work is rapidly progressing on a $500 million grain plant that will be the latest addition to South Dakota's growing agricultural processing industry.

For generations, the state has served as an agricultural production hub in the Great Plains, growing millions of bushels of corn and soybeans and raising millions of cows and hogs annually. For many years, most of the state's high-output food producers shipped their goods to be processed at plants elsewhere.

bags of soybeans on a desk
Other than soybean oil, these three bags contain the other major products produced at the AGP soybean plant in Aberdeen, S.D. Photographed on Oct. 23, 2024, the bags (left to right) contain soybean hulls, pelleted soybean hulls and hulls. (Photo: Bart Pfankuch / South Dakota News Watch)

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