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Farm Bureau President Says ADM May Have Needed Upgrades
Less than a day after ADM confirmed it was shutting down it's Galesburg soybean processing plant feelings of "what if" surround the farm industry.

Knox County Farm Bureau President Ted Mottaz weighed in during the WGIL Midday Tuesday hinting an upgrade may have been necessary. But Mottaz still found the news shocking.

"Just gut feeling I've had students working over there over the years, it's been good for the community," he says. "It's also over the years, as a trucker myself, not hauling there but having friends that do, it was prolly in need of some renovation and upgrading, that doesn't take away from the fact of decoupling from it completely."

Mottaz says the facility was a major marketing spot for the soybean industry in the midwest.

But he says the company is very efficiently minded and gives them credit for pulling out if ADM felt they could not get 110-percent out of the Galesburg plant's physical structure.

The future of the building being vacated by ADM is unknown at this time.
08 24 11 by Newsroom
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