The Port of Chehalis in Washington State doesn’t currently have a hand in the agriculture industry, but executive director Randy Mueller wants to offer farmers support moving forward.
The Daily Chronicle reports that at the Port of Chehalis Commission meeting Thursday, Mueller discussed a grain storage facility, as well as a transload facility for farmers to ship specialty grains.
“There has been a long-standing interest in having a grain storage facility,” Mueller told the Chronicle. “The idea being that there is a limited amount of grain being grown locally. A lot of hay, but not too much in the way of grain. But there are farmers and if they had somewhere to store and then transload and export grain, that would be able to boost their operations — make more money growing grain instead of hay and do more. So there has been this interest in a grain storage facility.”
Mueller noted that the profit for small growers would be in specialty grain, such as grains for microbrews or grains to make artisan bread.
