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Nancy Kavazanjian Nancy Kavazanjian
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Nancy Kavazanjian Nancy Kavazanjian
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Union rejects American Crystal 4-year contract deal

American Crystal Sugar Co. union employees on July 26, 2022, voted to reject a four-year labor pact that offered 17% in pay increases over four years, to replace a five-year deal that expires Aug. 1, 2022. The Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers, and Grain Millers initially will suggest new negotiation dates and isn’t suggesting a strike vote. Crystal, a Moorhead, Minnesota, farmer-owned cooperative, says it doesn’t “intend” to lock workers out, as it did for 22 months from 2011 to 2013.

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TOPIC(S): Corn/Maize, Agriculture US, Education U.S. MidWest, Sugar Beets,
TOPIC(S): Corn/Maize, Education U.S. MidWest, Conservation/Tillage, Sugar Beets,
Nancy Kavazanjian Nancy Kavazanjian
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Justice Department sues to block consolidation in the sugar industry | Agweek

United States Sugar Corp., a Clewiston, Florida, company that markets sugar cooperatively with Red River Valley sugarbeet growers, is seeking to purchase Imperial Sugar Co., including a major refinery in the Savannah, Georgia, area. The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday, Nov. 23, announced it is suing to block the purchase that could increase the market share of United Sugars Corp., the Edina, Minn.-based co-op marketing company, from its current 25% market share, to 32% to 34%.

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TOPIC(S): Agriculture US, Cover Crops, Sugar Beets, Carbon Farming,
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Why is it we now live in an age where the preposterous out right lies of politicians are accepted as truths and gospel, but people who tell the truth have to seek asylum in another nation? When did this not only become OK but the norm? What legacy are we leaving and what are we leaving our children?...Read More


John LaRose Jr. John LaRose Jr.
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