Jamestown  (CSi)  The Jamestown/Stutsman Development Corporation has  approved economic incentives for the planned Minnesota Soybean Processors crushing plant.

JSDC CEO Connie Ova says, the $282,000 in funding would be repaid from the North Dakota income tax withholding on the new employees of the plant when it starts up in 2018 and 2019,addng that Minnesota Soybean Processors is likely to  hire a project manager and assistant to work in Jamestown in May, this year,  and that the bulk of the new jobs at the plant would be created in 2018 and 2019.  The plant is expected to employ about 55 people.

The project’s construction cost of $240 million is anticipated to annually process 42 million bushels of soybeans.

The plant to be located south of the Spiritwood Energy Park connecting to the SEPA rail loop with added track.

Jamestown  (CSi)  The National Weather Service has set its SKYWARN weather severe weather training classes in North Dakota.