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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-24-038267"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GGROU"
cik: "0001489874"
company_name: "Golden Growers Cooperative"
filed_at: "2024-12-23T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-28T23:34:58.188889+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Cargill to buy Golden Growers' 50% stake in ProGold LLC at lease end in Dec 2026

## Summary
- Cargill will purchase Golden Growers' 50% membership interest in ProGold LLC upon lease expiration on December 31, 2026.
- Conditions for a long-term joint venture, set in 2022 when Cargill bought 50% from American Crystal Sugar, are unachievable due to economic environment.
- ProGold LLC owns a corn wet milling plant in Wahpeton, ND; Cargill has leased it since 1997.
- Golden Growers Chairman Brett Johnson acknowledged limited ability to maintain long-term interest; Cargill's VP Andy Joehl affirmed continued operations at the plant.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-24-038267
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GGROU
- cik: 0001489874
- company_name: Golden Growers Cooperative
- filed_at: 2024-12-23T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1489874/000143774924038267/0001437749-24-038267-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1489874/000143774924038267/ggrou20241223_8k.htm

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