Minneapolis, MN, based PURIS has agreed to a five-year purchase agreement to begin operating the South Dakota Pulse Processors LLC’s facility near Harrold.
The plant has had a rocky start, but Pierre Economic Development Corporation COO Jim Protexter says investors are hopeful operations will run smoothly going forward.
He says the Harrold facility will be PURIS’s fifth facility, joining others in Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois and Minnesota.
Protexter says the plant is expected to employ about a dozen people.
PURIS will begin discussion with local producers to purchase harvested peas and to sign up conventional and Certified Organic growers for the 2019 planting season.
