Crushing Seeds & Bottling Oil in Hoxie: Bainter Sunflower Oil Producing & Marketing Its 'All-Natural' Product from Northwest Kansas Base

摘要

The huge Northern Sun/ADM crushing plant near Goodland, Kan., has been a major market for High Plains oil sunflower seed since its opening in the mid-1990s. About 70 miles to the east of Goodland, however, sits another sunflower crusher — not nearlyas large or established, but nonetheless a fast-growing player on the High Plains sunflower scene. Bainter Sunflower Oil LLC, located in Hoxie, has quickly made a name for itself as a supplier of "all-natural" sunflower oil to grocery stores and supermarkets around northwestern Kansas. On shelves in about 40 area stores as of last summer, the 48-oz bottles of Bainter Sunflower Oil were introduced to adjacent parts of Colorado and Nebraska during September/October. The oil also proved a hit at the 2009 Kansas State Fair, where it was used to fry some of the annual extravaganza's favorite foods.