A lot of what lands in a grocery store's bread, cereal, and pasta aisles starts as wheat grown in the Red River Valley, on some of the richest farmland in the world, formed from the sediment glacial Lake Agassiz left behind. Fargo's economy has historically depended on that agricultural base, and packaging equipment now moves that grain from field to shelf. The city's food-processing sector has grown alongside manufacturing, technology, retail, and healthcare, and North Dakota State University anchors regional agricultural and food-science research tied to the area's grain economy.

Fargo's manufacturing credentials go beyond agriculture, too. A regional automobile-assembly plant built roughly 70 cars a day at its peak between 1917 and 1956, and a local auto distributor once handled nearly a third of a major carmaker's regional sales, evidence of an industrial base that predates the current food-processing boom. Today it's grain processors and food manufacturers who need that same production discipline, and we supply it directly: our Mars Series VFFS machines for bagging flour, cereal, and other Red River Valley grain products, and automatic case packers for getting finished cases onto trucks and rail cars headed out of the valley. NDSU's food-science program studies the same grain economy these plants run on, and we size every VFFS or case-packing line to whatever's actually moving through the plant, flour one week, cereal the next. No two grain lines run alike. Grain processors shipping out of the valley will find the VFFS and case-packing lineup waiting on our North Dakota location page, our solutions page, and our food and beverage industries page.