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...mills on weekends, even during harvest time when beets must be ground up quickly before they rot. Recalls Pat: "We were at the mercy of people a thousand miles away who just were not concerned with our needs." So Benedict, as a director of the Red River Valley Sugarbeet Growers Association, organized 1,600 farmers to put up $20 million in cash, borrow another $47 million and buy out the company. Now they run the mills, sell sugar directly to industrial users and have access to a company computer that provides each farmer-investor with a detailed analysis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New American Farmer | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

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