Apr 16, 2025Grand Forks officials tour Belgian processor building new facility in North Dakota
Grand Forks, North Dakota officials returned from a tour of Belgian-based potato processor Agristo impressed with the company’s cleanliness and culture.
City representatives traveled to Belgium earlier this month to visit Agristo, which announced plans in January to build a $450 million frozen potato processing facility in Grand Forks.
“Once the announcement was made and Grand Forks was the location that they were going to focus on, it was a mutual partnership that (the city would) like to come over there and see facilities and meet them ourselves so that we would have the firsthand knowledge,” Todd Feland, Grand Forks city administrator, said in remarks reported by the Grand Forks Herald.
The group toured a retrofitted plant in Nazareth, Belgium, along with a facility and company headquarters in Wielsbeke.
Agristo said it chose Grand Forks because of its high-quality potato farming and logistical connections to U.S. customers. The North Dakota facility is expected to open in 2028 and create up to 350 jobs.
