Cargill to build soybean processing plant in MO

Cargill has announced it’s building a soybean processing facility in southeastern Missouri.

Cargill said the $450 million project in Pemiscot County will boost soybean meal and soybean oil processing to meet growing domestic food, feed and fuel demand.

Cargill said it plans to run more than 60 million bushels of soybeans through the facility yearly which Missouri farmer Aaron Porter says will raise the local soybean basis and open more business to come through the Mississippi River.

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