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Cargill has invested in a pea protein production company by signing a new joint venture agreement with PURIS.

PURIS President Tyler Lorenzen tells Brownfield the partnership will expand their processing facilities in Iowa and Wisconsin as well as allow for investment in new sites.  “We’ve always earmarked our production from the seed to the manufacturing facilities as U.S. dominate.  We want to focus on the United States and with this, it allows us to expand our production facilities and acreage base.”

The vertically intergraded Minnesota-based company offers non-GMO and organic seed to growers and processes peas into a plant-based protein for the food industry.

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