In order to add stability to the organization and further reduce costs, Golden Growers has relocated our cooperative office.

As of April 21st, Golden  Growers will be collocated with the North Dakota Barley Council and North Dakota Grain Growers Association at 1002 main Avenue West in West Fargo, ND.

All three organizations will share office space and administrative services.

Our main telephone number will remain the same, but our Fax line has changed and the toll free number has been discontinued.

Our new contact information is as follows:

Golden Growers Cooperative

112 Main Avenue West, Suite 5

West Fargo, ND 58078

Office: 701-281-0468

Fax: 701-239-7280

Please feel free to stop by our office when you are in the area.

Make your plans now to attend the Golden Growers Cooperative Annual Meeting beginning at 9 am, Tuesday, March 24th at the Courtyard by Marriott in Moorhead, MN

This is a great time to visit with your fellow members, hear what has occurred in the prior year, and learn more about your Cooperative’s Business.

The agenda includes:

9:00 am Morning Short Courses:

• Developing Rural Leaders (Marie Hvidston, NDSU Extension, Rural Leadership North Dakota)
• Project Update: NPN’s Nitrogen Fertilizer Plant (Darin Anderson, President, Northern Plains Nitrogen); and
• Corn Market Outlook (Pat Pithey, Cargill Corn Merchandizing)

10:00 am Annual Meeting: Election of Directors: Review of the Financial Statements; Reports by Chairman Jason Medhaug and Executive Vice President Scott Stofferahn.

11:00 am Guest Speaker: Retail Insights Thought Leader, Todd Hale

11:45 am Lunch

The Golden Growers Board of Directors implemented a new policy to simplify some common transfers.  The policy applies to transfers to trusts and for the addition or deletion of a tenant.

Because of estate planning, many GGC members make requests to transfer their membership interest into a trust or they request the addition of a spouse as a joint tenant.  In other circumstances, we are asked to delete a joint tenant or a tenant in common.

To accommodate these transfers that do not result in a change in membership ID and often don’t result in a change in Tax IDs, the new policy allows for transfers to be processed administratively.

Transferees must agree to succeed to the Uniform Membership Agreement, Annual Delivery Agreement, any Security Agreements on file, sign a new Annual Delivery Agreement for the coming year.

Transfer forms and instructions are posted on the GGC Website under the Membership Tab by clicking on the Transfer Applications/Documents link.

Feel free to contact the Golden Growers office if you have any questions.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. International Trade Commission on May 9 made a preliminary determination of injury and will proceed with antidumping and countervailing duty investigations of U.S. imports of sugar from Mexico. The preliminary determination follows a decision by the U.S. Department of Commerce to initiate the case on April 18. U.S. sugar producers petitioned the I.T.C. and the D.O.C. on March 28 claiming subsidized Mexican sugar was being dumped in the U.S. market at a cost of about $1 billion to U.S. sugar producers in the current marketing year.

“Given the low threshold for determining injury in the U.S. I.T.C.’s preliminary determination, we are not surprised by today’s ruling,” the Sweetener Users Association said following the May 9 decision. “The vote simply allows the investigation to continue. However, while U.S. sugar producers had the right to file the petition under U.S. law and the U.S. I.T.C. has at this early stage made a preliminary determination of injury, it should not be assumed that the case has merit. To the contrary, we expect that the U.S. sugar producers will lose when the U.S. I.T.C. is able to complete the full investigation.”  (more…)