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Cooperatives involved in value-added processing	Structure & Focus
21st Century Alliance 21st Century Alliance, a farmer-owned enterprise enables farmers to develop value added products through cooperative ventures. One Alliance-formed enterprise, Golden Forest Ag Fibers Cooperative, will be making straw-based construction materials. Other Alliance cooperatives include a dairy cooperative, a pinto bean processing plant, and a flour tortilla mill.	Agricultural Residues Building Materials Cooperative
Ag Processing Inc Ag Processing Inc (AGP) is a farmer-owned cooperative engaged in the procurement, processing, marketing, and transportation of grains and grain products. AGP was formed in 1983 and today is comprised of 285 local cooperatives and 10 regional cooperatives, representing 300,000 farmers from 16 states throughout the United States and Canada. AGP operates nine soybean processing plants.	Cooperative Corn Fuels Lubricants Soybeans
Agri-Energy, LLC Agri-Energy, a joint venture between CORN-er Stone Farmers' Cooperative and private investors, produces 15 million gallons of corn-derived ethanol annually.	Cooperative Corn Fuels
Al-Corn Al-Corn, a cooperatively-owned ethanol plant produces 15 million gallons of corn-derived ethanol annually.	Company Cooperative Corn Fuels
Central Minnesota Ethanol Coop Central Minnesota Ethanol Coop produces over 15 million gallons of corn-derived ethanol per year.	Cooperative Corn Fuels
Chippewa Valley Ethanol Company, LLC Chippewa Valley Ethanol Company, a joint venture between farmer-owned cooperative and private company Delta-T, produces 18 million gallons of corn-derived ethanol annually.	Cooperative Corn Fuels
Corn Plus Corn Plus is a farmer-owned cooperative with 650 members, converting 7.2 million bushels of corn into 19 million gallons of ethanol per year.	Cooperative Corn Fuels
Dakota Growers Pasta Company Dakota Growers Pasta Company, a farmer-owned cooperative processes wheat and produces over 50 kinds of wheat-derived pasta varieties.	Cooperative
Durafibre Inc. Durafibre, a company jointly owned by Cargill Ltd., the Government of Saskatchewan, and Sask-Can Fibre Inc., produces fibers from flax straw for use in the automotive, geotextiles, nonwooden, composite and pulp and paper industries.	Agricultural Residues Company Composites Cooperative Flax
Exol Corporation Exol, a 100% farmer-owned ethanol plant produces 15 million gallons of corn-derived ethanol annually.	Cooperative Corn Fuels
Glacial Lakes Energy LLC Ethanol production facility	Company Cooperative Corn Fuels
Minaqua Fisheries Minaqua Fisheries, a new generation cooperative, raises and markets Tilapia at its fishery in Renville, Minnesota.	Aquaculture Cooperative
Minnesota Corn Processors Minnesota Corn Processors, a farmer-owned cooperative produces ethanol, corn starch, corn syrup, 42% high fructose corn syrup, a bio-based deicer (called Caliber), and feed products from its plant in Marshall, Minnesota.	Cooperative Corn Deicers Fuels
Minnesota Energy Minnesota Energy, a cooperatively-owned ethanol plant, produces 11 million gallons of corn-derived ethanol per year.	Cooperative Corn Fuels
Nebraska Energy LLC Nebraska Energy, a cooperatively-owned ethanol plant, can produce up to 30 million gallons of ethanol per year.	Cooperative Fuels
North American Bison Cooperative North American Bison Cooperative is the only USDA and EU approved bison processing facility in the United States.	Cooperative
North American Fish Farmers North American Fish Farmers, a new generation cooperative, raises and markets Tilapia and Yellow Perch from its plant in Binford, North Dakota.	Aquaculture Cooperative
Northeast Missouri Grain, LLC NEMOG, a farmer-owned ethanol facility, produces 15 million gallons of ethanol and over 100 million pounds of dry distiller's grain from 6 million bushels of corn annually.	Cooperative Corn Fuels
Ostrich Producers Co-op of the Midwest Ostrich Producers Co-op of the Midwest, a new generation cooperative, processes and markets Ostrich meat, and other organic beef, under the name of Healthrich Farms.	Cooperative
Pine Lake Corn Processors LLC Pine Lake Corn Processors LLC was formed for the purpose of building, owning and operating a 15 million gallon per year fuel ethanol plant near Eldora and Steamboat Rock, Iowa (located in north central Iowa). The project is presently in the financial and design planning stages, with construction completion is targeted in August of 2002. The ethanol produced from approximately 5.6 million bushels of corn feedstock will be sold for blending with gasoline as an octane enhancer, and as a fuel oxygenate. The company is a limited liability company and presently is governed and managed by eleven Directors. The company is offering membership units for sale to other Iowa residents.	Cooperative Corn Fuels
Pro-Corn LLC Pro-Corn, a joint venture between South East Minnesota Ethanol Cooperative and private investors, produces 15 million gallons of corn-derived ethanol annually.	Cooperative Corn Fuels
South Dakota Soybean Processors The South Dakota Soybean Processors, a new generation cooperative, produces soybean meal and soybean hulls for livestock feed, and crude soybean oil used in the production of industrial products.	Cooperative Soybeans
Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative harvests 2.4 million tons of sugar beets for use in processing pure beet sugar, beet pulp pellets and beet molasses. The pellets are used as livestock feed and the molasses is used in the production of yeast, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals.	Agricultural Residues Cooperative Specialty Chemicals
SoyMor Soybean Cooperative A proposed cooperatively-owned Soybean processing plant in SE Minnesota that hopes to capture the profits from the high value products that are currently being captured by major oilseed processors.	Cooperative Fuels Lubricants Soybeans Specialty Chemicals
Sunrise Energy Cooperative Sunrise Energy Cooperative converts 2.3 million bushels of corn into 5 million gallons of ethanol annually.	Cooperative Corn Fuels
Tall Corn Ethanol Cooperative Tall Corn Ethanol is a Joint Venture between Tall Corn Ethanol Cooperative and TCE, LLC. The Cooperative consists of 450 producer and non-producer investors. Members have invested $9.7 million and are committed to delivering 4.85 million bushels of corn to the plant annually. It will take approximately 14.8 million bushels of corn to produce 40 million gallons of ethanol. Tall Corn Ethanol will also produce 120,000 tons of Distiller's Dry Grain annually, a co-product of the process used to make ethanol from corn. Tall Corn Ethanol will create 33 new jobs to manage, operate, and maintain the ethanol plant, representing a payroll of 1.3 million dollars. The Broin & Associates designed project will take 5,500 yards of cement and 50 to 75 workers on the site. Construction will take about 14 months with completion projected for fall of 2002.	Cooperative Corn Fuels
Tall Corn Ethanol LLC Ethanol production facility.	Company Cooperative Corn Fuels
Thumb Oilseed Producers' Cooperative Thumb Oilseed, a farmer-owned cooperative with 205 members, operates a soybean crushing facility that is capable of converting over one million bushels of soybeans into 6.8 million pounds of oil, 22,000 tons of meal, and 2,200 tons of hulls annually. In addition to high-quality food oil, TOPC produces oil that is used as a feedstock for bio-based motor oil.	Cooperative Machining Fluids Soybeans
West Central Cooperative This farmer-owned cooperative produces and markets a variety of soy-based products, including diesel fuel additives, hydraulic fluid, fifth wheel grease, chainsaw bar oil, and a range of cleaning products. West Central Cooperative is also a biodiesel supplier.	Cooperative Degreasers & Strippers Fuels Household Cleaning Solvents Industrial Cleaning Solvents Lubricants Soybeans

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