As Fufeng Group deal heads toward final votes, is the Grand Forks City Council ready?
Council set to again discuss the proposed factory on Monday, Feb. 14.
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Council set to again discuss the proposed factory on Monday, Feb. 14.
The estimate of 40 cents per bushel isn’t unrealistic for the first year or two of the plant’s operation, said Frayne Olson, North Dakota State University Extension marketing specialist in a Feb. 8 interview. But prices likely will drop off after that.
What will the plant smell like? What will it look like? How many new trains and trucks will soon flow through Grand Forks’ collective backyard?
A group of farmers and others with concerns about the proposed plant to be located in Falconer Township, North Dakota, attended a three-hour Monday, Jan. 31, Grand Forks City Council work session.
But for backers of the new factory — and even for some tough-on-China observers — these questions miss a bigger point.