Selling an organic harvest is not as simple as dropping off at the local elevator. Most grain elevators can’t accept it.
The Star Tribune reports that a Minneapolis firm is trying to change that by streamlining the organic supply chain.
Pipeline Foods, a private-equity-backed company started less than two years ago, in recent weeks took over a grain elevator in Atlantic, IA, its fifth elevator dedicated to handling organic crops.
About 60 people work for the firm, where they buy grain from farmers over the phone, set up the logistics to pick it up if the farmer isn’t near one of the firm’s handful of facilities, and help walk farmers through the process of transitioning to organic.
Read the full report here.
