Dakota Growers Pasta Company is an American
brand of
pasta and
food processing
Food processing is the transformation of agricultural products into food, or of one form of food into other forms. Food processing includes many forms of processing foods, from grinding grain to make raw flour to home cooking to complex industr ...
, currently owned by 8th Avenue, a company of
Post Holdings. The former Dakota Growers agricultural processing company was located in
Carrington, North Dakota
Carrington is a city in Foster County, North Dakota, United States. It is the county seat of Foster County. The population was 2,080 at the 2020 census. Carrington was founded in 1883.
Carrington is home to Dakota Growers Pasta Company, Inc. ...
, having started in 1990 as a wheat-growers cooperative. In 2002, Dakota Growers became a
public company.
Announced as a joint press release on March 10, 2010, 'Dakota Growers Pasta Company' was sold to the Canadian-based
agribusiness
Agribusiness is the industry, enterprises, and the field of study of value chains in agriculture and in the bio-economy,
in which case it is also called bio-business or bio-enterprise.
The primary goal of agribusiness is to maximize profit w ...
Viterra, Inc. Following Viterra's acquisition by
Glencore Xstrata, Dakota Growers was sold to
Post Holdings on January 1, 2014.
Television
Vice President David Tressler and the plant were featured on the
Food Network show ''
Unwrapped''. The episode focused on the manufacture of Dakota Growers Pasta's Dreamfields low-carb pasta line.
Products
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dry pasta
*
semolina
*
durum wheat
*mill feed by-products
References
External links
Official website(archived, 2 Feb 2010)
Unwrapped YouTube video Dakota Growers Pasta Company, Inc (Google Maps)
Food manufacturers of the United States
American pasta companies
Manufacturing companies based in North Dakota
Carrington, North Dakota
American companies established in 1990
Food and drink companies established in 1990
1990 establishments in North Dakota
Post Consumer Brands brands
Agricultural cooperatives in the United States
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