Dakota growers pasta
Dakota Growers Pasta Company (DGPC) is an agricultural cooperative that processes its members¡¦ durum wheat into flour and pasta products. ... By 1998, Dakota Growers was one of the five largest pasta producers in the United States, with facilities located in North Dakota and Minnesota. It has approximately 1,100 members located in North Dakota, Minnesota, and Montana. ... Department of Commerce reported that Americans had been increasing their pasta consumption at an annualized rate of between 2 to 3 percent for the past ten years. Changing lifestyles, increased availability of pasta sauces, increased attention of healthy eating and increased numbers of Italian restaurants have made pasta market grows. (5 billion pounds of pasta were consumed in 1998 compared with about 4 billion pounds in 1992). ... The pasta industry is extremely competitive and has undergone various changes within the past decade. There are only a few fully integrated milling and pasta manufacturing facilities in the U. ... ; most pasta makers purchase semolina from independent milling companies Most of the durum milling take place in the Upper Great Plains and the Midwest in fact this is where capacity is concentrated.