Spiritwood  (CSi)  The Spiritwood Energy Park Association Board heard that ground breaking for the Minnesota Soybean Processors crushing plant will be this summer.

At the quarterly meeting, JSDC, CEO Connie Ova, said  the  groundbreaking for the  $240 million soybean meal, oil and bio-diesel plant in Spiritwood,   is anticipated for  August or September.

The company was requesting the land not be farmed this year.

The Minnesota Soybean Processors is expected to confirm its intentions to lease land from SEPA south of the Dakota Spirit AgEnergy ethanol plant.

SEPA will refund $445,000 to Dakota Spirit AgEnergy, after a billing error and a problem with calculating depreciation.