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When investor- owned businesses began pulling out of the sugar beet business, the community rallied and organized the Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Company to process beets. The cooperative now employs several hundred people. This success has been repeated with hogs, chickens, and fish. The community has diversified its economy using cooperatives to create jobs and economic activity. Many of the new cooperative employees were formally in low paying, unskilled jobs. The new generation cooperatives pay the highest wages in the community and provide job training and educational opportunities.
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