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Bartlett Grain Company describes $440 million soybean crushing facility in Cherryvale to Senate committee
Summary
Company executives told the Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee that Bartlett Grain’s new Cherryvale, Kansas, soybean crushing plant is a $440 million investment that expands in-state processing capacity, supports local farmers and rail infrastructure, and could be expanded later to support renewable fuel production.
Bill Webster, vice president of Bartlett Grain Company, and Dustin Brevard, who leads Bartlett’s soybean crushing business, briefed the Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee about the company’s new soybean crushing facility in Cherryvale, Kansas.
Bartlett described the project as a $440,000,000 investment that increases Kansas soybean crushing capacity by more than 40 percent. The company said the Cherryvale plant can crush nearly 50,000,000 bushels of soybeans per year and produce roughly 500,000,000 pounds of soybean oil, more than 1,000,000 tons of soybean meal and about 75,000 tons of soybean hulls annually. Bartlett said the meal produced at the plant feeds the rations of an estimated 100,000,000 chickens each year and the hulls feed roughly 60,000 head…
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