en.Wedoany.com Reported - A $250 million soybean crushing plant in rural Illinois has officially commenced operations, operated by Incobrasa Industries, with a daily processing capacity of 240,000 bushels. The list of high-profile attendees at the ribbon-cutting ceremony indicates that the plant will bring a much-needed boost in domestic demand for struggling soybean farmers in the Midwest.

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker stated at the event in Gilman (about 90 miles south of Chicago) that Illinois is the largest soybean-producing state in the U.S., and Incobrasa is using these soybeans to drive the modern economy, including for biodiesel, cooking oil, and livestock feed.

Incobrasa, a family-owned business founded in Brazil 44 years ago, first began crushing soybeans in east-central Illinois in 1997 and later entered the biodiesel production sector. According to Kerry Fogarty, the company's quality control manager, the new crushing plant doubles the company's size and is the largest single soybean extraction facility in the United States.

Fogarty said at the ceremony that this will provide Illinois soybean farmers with a safe market immune to trade wars. Devin Mogler, President and CEO of the National Oilseed Processors Association, stated that the additional crushing capacity strengthens U.S. agriculture. The association represents 99% of the U.S. soybean processing industry.

Mogler noted that thanks to bold expansions like this, the U.S. can now process three out of every five rows of soybeans grown in farmland, retaining more value domestically and, bluntly put, reducing dependence on China.

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