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Dakota Growers Pasta Co.
Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Food
Founded	1990; 35 years ago
Fate	Acquired by Viterra in 2010, becoming a brand
Headquarters	Carrington, North Dakota, U.S.
Key people	Mike Ness (Plant Manager) ; Jack Dalrymple (Chairman)
Products	Pasta
Owner	Post Holdings (2014–pres.)
Website	8avepasta.com

Dakota Growers Pasta Company is an American brand of pasta and food processing, currently owned by 8th Avenue, a company of Post Holdings. The former Dakota Growers agricultural processing company was located in Carrington, North Dakota, having started in 1990 as a wheat-growers cooperative. In 2002, Dakota Growers became a public company.^[2] As per media reports, Dakota Growers Pasta Company was the third largest pasta manufacturer in North America in 2002, processing about 1.5 million pounds of pasta daily.^[3]

Announced as a joint press release on March 10, 2010, Dakota Growers Pasta Company was sold to the Canadian-based agribusiness, Viterra, Inc.^[4] Following Viterra's acquisition by Glencore Xstrata, Dakota Growers was sold to Post Holdings on January 1, 2014.^[5]

Television

Vice President David Tressler and the plant were featured on the Food Network show Unwrapped. The episode focused on the manufacture of Dakota Growers Pasta's Dreamfields low-carb pasta line.^{[citation needed]}