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Sitting down at her desk each morning, Bailey Schiefelbein doesn't always know what will be waiting for her, and she likes it that way. Her position as a Feed Administrative Specialist keeps her on her toes and allows her the opportunity to have no two days that are exactly alike.

Today, Crystal Valley announced a collaboration with Land O’Lakes and internet service provider Midco to expand broadband internet access to residents of Trimont, MN, and the surrounding community. Midco has installed high-speed broadband technology to three towers in the Trimont area including Crystal Valley’s Trimont location, improving access to broadband connectivity throughout the area. This effort to improve internet connectivity has the potential to directly benefit 1,595 residents in the rural area who are currently unable to access adequate broadband service at their homes. 

This morning, Crystal Valley employees presented a check for $5,000 to Jackson County Food 4 Kids to help support their mission "to provide meals for food-insecure children in Jackson County on non-school days throughout the school year." With this donation, 14+ kids will have food available to them for an entire year! 

Crystal Valley is currently accepting nominations for the Board of Directors. Tim Lewer - Board Chairman

Are you a budding photographer with a great eye for capturing what harvest looks like? Enter Crystal Valley's Harvest 2021 photo contest!

On Sunday, September 19, Crystal Valley was alerted we had been targeted in a ransomware attack. This attack has infected the computer systems at Crystal Valley and severely interrupted the daily operations of the company.

On Tuesday, September 8th, Crystal Valley, South Central College, and Greater Mankato Growth celebrated the long-awaited ribbon cutting of the newly renovated Crystal Valley Agribusiness Lab at South Central College. Crystal Valley donated $132,275 to South Central College's North Mankato Campus Foundation, which covered half of the lab's construction costs, with the other half paid for with bonding funding from the legislature in 2017 for SCC's North Mankato Renovation project.

With the 2021 Winter Conference's cancellation due to COVID-19 restrictions, we got creative and put together short videos covering information we'd normally share in person.