While the ingredients for sweet pea salad vary a bit, Khamille and many other TikTokers swear by a certain brand of canned peas: Le Sueur. “I went out and bought the fancy [peas],” she says in ...

became one of the largest producers of canned corn and peas in the United States. From its base in Le Sueur, the company developed new ways of growing, manufacturing, and marketing canned vegetables.

In 1903, 14 merchants in Le Sueur, Minnesota joined forces ... the Minnesota Valley Canning Company only sold Early June peas, a variety of small, sweet peas. When a company executive found ...

LE SUEUR — Le Sueur's historic connection to canned vegetables isn't completely expired, but the demolition of the corn and pea processing plant on Commerce Street — which began Tuesday ...

and almost 1 million cases of peas at the peak of the Le Sueur plant's production. Hundreds of workers, many of them seasonal, pumped money into the local economy. But time, and changing tastes ...