Minn-Dak Farmers Coop

Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative officially formed in August 30, 1972.In October 1, 1974 First campaign gets underway with an estimated 800,000 tons of beets. Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative is located in Wahpeton, a city in the southeast corner of North Dakota, in the heart of the Red River Valley.  
 
Minn-Dak markets its sugar through USC and markets co-products are in a wider basket it includes beet molasses, beet pulp pellets and other commodities in the world. Minn-Dak sustains approximately 260 year-round employees, 80 seasonal employees, and 240 harvest workers.
 
A biennial, sugarbeets are harvested annually for their roots. The source of one third of the world's sugar, sugarbeets are considered to be one of the newest commercial crops. Commonly confused with red beets, sugarbeets have a white root and are not edible when harvested. Sugarbeets are grown commercially throughout the world in cooler, temperate climates. The main producers around the world are Canada, France, Germany, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, and the United States.
 
They are marketing through Creative Stitches. It has variety of products on which the Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative and Minn-Dak Yeast Company logos are placed. 

More than one-half of the sugar produced in the United States comes from sugarbeets. Annually, more than 25 million tons of sugarbeets are produced on over 1.5 million acres, yielding approximately 20 tons of beets per acre and 4 million tons of refined sugar. USC is the largest sugar marketing organization in the country, consisting of Minn-Dak, American Crystal Sugar Company (Moorhead, MN), and United States Sugar Corporation (Clewiston, Florida).