North America investing in transformative grain and feed projects

NEW CONSTRUCTION

Vetagro | animal nutrition production and distribution facility

Location: Easton, Maryland

Planned completion: July 2026

The Italian animal nutrition company broke ground in September 2025 on its first U.S. manufacturing facility, initially creating 20 jobs with potential to grow to 60 positions as operations expand.

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Bunge Chevron Ag | renewables oilseed plant

Location: Destrehan, Louisiana

Planned completion: 2026

The plant will feature a flexible design capable of processing soybeans, soft seeds and novel winter oilseed crops.

EXPANSION

Delta Grain | grain elevator

Location: Sidon, Mississippi

Planned completion: October 2025

Delta Grain is investing $3.76 million to expand its Sidon facility with a ground pile and new conveyance system that will add 2.15 million bushels of storage capacity.

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DeLong | agricultural intermodal export facility

Location: Portsmouth, Virginia

Planned completion: Early 2026

The $26 million agricultural intermodal export facility in Portsmouth will be the first East Coast site able to receive unit trains and transload grain and feedstuffs directly into export containers.

EXPANSION

Virginia Poultry Growers Cooperative | grain unloading station and rail access

Location: Linville, Virginia

Planned completion: Unreported

A $750,000 Rail Industrial Access grant will help expand the cooperative’s grain unloading station and rail trackage to double annual railcar usage and reduce truck traffic.

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Virginia Poultry Growers Cooperative | feed mill

Location: Rockingham County, Virginia

Planned completion: 2027 

The $113.9 million multi-phase expansion will create the largest feed mill on the East Coast, adding nearly 2 million cubic feet of feed production capacity.

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Louis Dreyfus Co. | soybean processing plant

Location: Sandusky, Ohio

Planned completion: Spring 2026

The plant will have an annual soy crushing capacity of 1.5 million metric tons and annual edible soybean oil production capacity of 320,000 metric tons.

EXPANSION

Gerber & Sons Inc. | feed mill

Location: Baltic, Ohio

Planned completion: Unreported

Gerber & Sons will double their feed mill's processing capacity from 1.65 million bushels and consolidate more than 500,000 bushels of raw material storage.

NEW CONSTRUCTION

Beck’s | soybean processing facility

Location: New Madrid, Missouri

Planned completion: Fall 2026

Beck’s new soybean processing facility will have processing capacity of 3 million units of soybeans per year.

EXPANSION

Incobrasa Industries | soybean processing plant

Location: Gilman, Illinois

Planned completion: 2030

A new soybean oil extraction and biodiesel plant is slated to be operational in 2026, with the remainder of the expansion targeted for completion by 2030.

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Akron Services | feed mill

Location: Kewanee, Illinois

Planned completion: Unreported

Akron Services is demolishing a historic downtown grain elevator complex to construct a new replacement feed mill that will serve livestock owners, rabbit producers and birdseed customers across the region.

NEW CONSTRUCTION

Gengler Feed Service | feed mill

Location: Calumet, Iowa

Planned completion: 2026

Heartland Steel and Millwright Service is constructing a state-of-the-art feed mill at Gengler Feed Service's Calumet site, featuring 45 ingredient bins ranging from 15 to 60 tons each.

EXPANSION

CHS | Kindred grain terminal

Location: Kindred, North Dakota

Planned completion: Late 2026

The Kindred project adds new concrete storage and handling capacity to boost speed and volume on Red River Valley & Western rail.

EXPANSION

Cooperative Producers | shuttle grain facility

Location: Red Cloud, Nebraska

Planned completion: Early fall 2026

CPI is adding a 2‑million‑bushel grain storage building and 30,000‑bushel‑per‑hour dump pit and receiving leg to increase capacity and receiving speed at its Red Cloud shuttle facility.

NEW CONSTRUCTION

CHS | grain elevator and rail project

Location: Worthing, South Dakota

Planned completion: 2026

The Worthing project will add a new elevator complex with six 140‑foot concrete bins, a new receiving building and upgraded rail and truck scale infrastructure to support high‑speed grain loading.

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Agtegra Cooperative | feed mill

Location: Faulkton, South Dakota

Planned completion: 2027

Agtegra is building a new 100,000-ton biosecure grind-mix feed mill using locally sourced corn to produce swine and poultry feed, creating about a dozen local jobs.

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Grainshore | grain export and transloading hub

Location: Manitowoc, Wisconsin

Planned completion: Unreported

A $20 million federal grant will support the Midwest Multi‑Modal Development Project at the Port of Manitowoc to expand grain storage, upgrade handling equipment and improve rail connections for domestic and export shipments.

NEW CONSTRUCTION

TFP Nutrition | pet food plant

Location: Platteville, Colorado

Planned completion: 2026

Weitz is building a 75,000-square-foot building with two 30,000-pound-per-hour pet food lines linked to an existing TFP Nutrition ingredient facility.

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5V | shuttle train receiver

Location: Dalhart, Texas

Planned completion: 2026

The shuttle train receiver is expected to enhance local feed supplies and strengthen agricultural capabilities in the Texas Panhandle.

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Bunge | grain facility

Location: Dalhart, Texas

Planned completion: Mid‑2026

The state‑of‑the‑art grain facility will include an advanced grain handling system and loop track served by Union Pacific Railroad.

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Ports America Chesapeake & Frey Commodities | grain transloading facility

Location: Port of Baltimore, Maryland

Planned completion: August 2026

The Seagirt Marine Terminal project will add a four‑acre grain transloading facility with 60,000 bushels of silo storage to move grain from trucks and rail into export containers.

EXPANSION

POET | bioethanol plant

Location: Shelbyville, Indiana

Planned completion: Unreported

POET plans to double production at its Shelbyville bioprocessing facility, increasing annual bioethanol output from 98 million to 193 million gallons and expanding co‑product volumes and local corn demand.

NEW CONSTRUCTION

G3 Canada | grain terminal

Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Planned completion: Fall 2027

The Port of Trois‑Rivières grain terminal project aims to improve efficiency, safety and environmental performance in the region’s grain industry.

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Provectus Biofuels | renewable fuel facility

Location: Vegreville, Alberta, Canada

Planned completion: 2027

Provectus Biofuels plans a renewable jet fuel plant in Prosperity Industrial Park, with project development targeting operation later in the decade.

NEW CONSTRUCTION

Koch Grain Elevator | grain transloading facility

Location: Earlton, Ontario, Canada

Planned completion: Unreported

Ontario is investing $1 million to build a grain transloading facility at Koch Grain Elevator to move grain efficiently between trucks and Ontario Northland Railway.

NEW CONSTRUCTION

Louis Dreyfus Co. | pea protein isolate facility

Location: Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada

Planned completion: 2026

LDC is commissioning a pea protein isolate plant co‑located with its Yorkton oilseed complex to produce pea protein, fiber and starch for food, pet food and industrial uses.

NEW CONSTRUCTION

Maizex Seeds | seed corn processing plant

Location: Blenheim, Ontario, Canada

Planned completion: Unreported

Maizex Seeds is building an $8.8 million seed corn processing and packaging plant with upgraded cleaning, sizing and packaging equipment to support Canadian‑grown seed corn.