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Popcorn Boom Ties Kansas Growers to World Markets
Ulysses Kansas is home to Weaver Popcom which contracts 85 to 100 area farmers to grow popcorn. The plant processes up to 280000 pounds daily and markets to about 30 foreign countries while supplying brands such as General Mills and ICEE. Harvest runs May through October with 50 to 60 million pounds a year.
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Alesa Meschberger
Dodge City
Japan
Tom Keaton
Ulysses
General Mills
ICEE
Keaton
Ogallala
Weaver
van Buren
Comn
Weaver Popcorn
America
United States