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Farmers Union opened its own warehouse, oil blending plant, and headquarters in 1935.
The Farmers Union Grain Terminal Association (GTA) opened in St Paul in June 1938 with the support of 121 local coops.
NPGG relocated to Portland, Oregon, in 1938.
1938: GTA is formed in St Paul.
GTA acquired Rush City, Minnesota-based Amber Milling Company in 1942, entering the wheat milling business.
In 1942, the co-op began marketing feed, seed and fertilizer.
Cenex built a new headquarters building in St Paul in 1957.
Cenex expanded in the Pacific Northwest in 1971.
At the time of its fiftieth anniversary in 1981, Cenex had 1,500 member co-ops in 15 states.
1983: NPGG and GTA merge to form Harvest States Cooperatives.
However, it posted a pretax profit of just $426,000 on sales of $1.4 billion in 1985, while Harvest States logged sales of $2.3 billion and a pretax profit of $12.1 million.
Processed food accounted for $459 million of Harvest States' annual sales in fiscal 1991.
In 1992, Harvest States' Holsum Foods Division acquired Portland-based Gregg Foods.
A subsidiary of Cenex acquired Rockford Gain Growers Inc., a small co-op based near Spokane, Washington, in 1994.
John Johnson became CEO of Harvest States in January 1995.
On August 1, 1997, the Farmers Union Elevator of Minot then merged with Harvest States Cooperatives.
Harvest States Cooperatives and Cenex, Inc. merged on June 1, 1998, to form Cenex Harvest States Cooperatives, now known as CHS Inc. headquartered in Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota.
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The Harvest States Foods division began building a new tortilla plant in Newton, North Carolina, in 2002.
In 2003, it changed its legal name to CHS Inc.
In August 2012 voting members approved a merger with CHS Inc.
September 1st 2012 Larsen Cooperative joined the CHS Country Ops family to better serve our patrons into the future.
In Spring 2015 the cooperative offically adopted the CHS name and is now represented as CHS Larsen Cooperative.
2019 Board of Directors Back row from the left: Bucky Henschel, Larry Eisentraut, Ron Kurey and Don Lutz.
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