Work is underway at NEW Cooperative’s existing agronomy hub southwest of Cooper, IA, to construct a new grain elevator and feed mill, reports The Jefferson Herald.
When it begins producing livestock feed in January 2022, the Cooper mill will grind 200,000 bushels of corn a week for hogs in the surrounding area.
While the Cooper site is designed to handle two commodities, the elevator will take only corn from local farmers to start with, beginning next fall, with the feed mill producing 400,000 tons of feed/year.
The feed mill will eventually have the capacity to manufacture 500,000 tons of feed annually — an undertaking that would create demand for 10 million bushels of corn.
