Products Rolling Out of
Aberdeen Soybean Processing
Plant: Facility Can Handle 5
Million Bushels Annually
Soybean oil and soybean meal have started to roll out of Natural Gold LLC, a new soybean processing facility on Aberdeen's east side.
Trucks began hauling oil and meal from the plant earlier this month, said Arlis Hanson, the plant's chief owner.
On Friday, a truck driver from Deerfield Hutterite Colony near Ipswich picked up a semi-load of meal that will be fed to dairy cattle there. Also Friday, a driver from Willow Bank Hutterite Colony near Edgeley, N.D., picked up a semi-load of meal, mainly for turkey feed at the colony.
Five people work at the soybean plant, Hanson said, and he expects up to 15 employees eventually. The plant is capable of crushing and refining 5 million bushels of soybeans annually, but is not at that capacity yet, Hanson said.
"We are walking before we run."
Ground was broken for the plant in September 2007.
The soybean oil processed at Natural Gold is blended with small quantities of ethanol from Advanced Bioenergy's Heartland Grain Fuels plant on the west side of Aberdeen. Mostly diesel fuel dealers buy the oil/ethanol blend that in turn is blended with diesel fuel at various percentages, Hanson said. Natural Gold oil is registered with the Environmental Protection Agency as a renewable additive, he said.
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