Doyle awards Landmark $4 million soybean grant
Evansville—Gov. Jim Doyle today awarded a $4 million state grant to Landmark Services Cooperative for the construction of Wisconsin’s first soybean crushing facility.
Landmark, a farmer-owned co-op, will match the grant to build a plant with the capacity to process 20 million bushels of soybeans annually. The plant will be located next to where construction on North Prairie Production’s biodiesel plant is stalled on the city’s east side.
Doyle presented the grant to Landmark board president John Blaska this afternoon at the co-op’s Evansville facility. Doyle commended the bipartisan work of Rep. Brett Davis, R-Oregon, and Sen. Jon Erpenbach, D-Waunakee, to have the grant included in the state budget.
“This is a great moment,” Doyle said, “and a major step forward for Wisconsin.”
Apr 9, 2008 at 8:17 a.m.
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I'm sure this is a totally unrelated campaign donation, but it's amazing what a few dollars can sometimes "buy":
http://www.opensecrets.org/wdc/interest....
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Apr 8, 2008 at 7:08 p.m.
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That's smart dump money into a soybean crushing plant next to the bio-diesel plant that stopped being built. Another brilliant move by Doyle to spend taxpayers dollars.
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