The Next Big North Dakota Agricultural Story: The Yellow Pea -- December 12, 2022

From Minot Daily News, August 24, 2021, a little over a year ago: pea breeding facility opens in Minot.

Minot-area farmers could reap benefits from a new yellow pea breeding station in southeast Minot. Food and ag-tech company Benson Hill of St. Louis, Missouri, is working with a select group of area producers to optimize yellow pea genetics for the area’s growing conditions. Yellow pea is one of the fastest-growing sources of protein for plant-based meat alternatives, with a market that is forecasted to reach about $140 billion by 2029, according to industry sources. Despite this, yellow pea has traditionally received little genomic innovation, Benson Hill reported. 

Israeli startup Equinom raises $35 million to begin sales: yellow pea -- Bloomberg.

From FoodNavigator, December 3, 2021:

• Roquette unveils "world's largest pea protein plant"
• 200,000-square-foot-plant: Poortage la Prairie, Manitoba, Canada
• first company too operate a major pea protein facilities on both sides of the Atlantic
• company made investment in Israeli startup company Equinom
• Other companies opening new yellow pea facilities:
• PURIS: recently opened a large plant in Dawson, MN
• Ingredio: recently opened a large plant in Nebraska
• ADM: recently opened a large plant in North Dakota; link here; and, here;
• Cosucra: recently opened a large plant in Denmark; expanding in Belgium
• several Chinese manufacturers expanding capacity

Link here, May 11, 2021:

ADM has announced plans to build North Dakota’s first-ever dedicated soybean crushing plant and refinery.

Based in Spiritwood, North Dakota, (near Jamestown) the approximately $350 million crush and refining complex will have the capacity to process 150,000 bushels of soybeans per day.

The facility is expected to be complete prior to the 2023 harvest.

From 2016: 

In America, the top five producers:

• Montana, North Dakota, Washington, Idaho, Oregon -- 2012

Back in 2009: 

Gov. John Hoeven today joined local officials and company representatives for the grand opening of United Pulse Trading Inc., a $7.5 million pea and lentil splitting facility in Williston, N.D.

The new facility is capable of cleaning, calibrating, peeling, splitting and color sorting 75,000 metric tons of peas and lentils, making it the largest lentil and pea splitting company in the Americas. Hoeven was joined for the ribbon cutting by president and CEO of Alliance Grain Traders, Murad Al-Katib, Williston Mayor Ward Koeser, and other local officials.

United Pulse began operating in 2007 while undergoing major expansions and renovations, and has since created 33 new jobs at the processing facility in Williston and five new jobs at its headquarters in Bismarck. The company, which has roots in Turkey, has moved five new Turkish families to North Dakota.