Posts Categorized: Our Members

North Iowa Co-op’s new seed facility positioned for future

From http://globegazette.com By KRISTIN BUEHNER PORTLAND — A state-of-the-art seed storage facility at Portland, now under construction, will be the first of its kind in the area, a spokesman for North […]

New president fields questions about Farmers Cooperative’s future

Written by Dan Piller from the Des Moines Register BONDURANT, IA. — As Jim Chism approaches a pile of newly harvested corn at the Farmers Cooperative site adjoining U.S. Highway […]

Co-ops seen as business centers of rural communities

By Matthew Wilde, Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, Iowa McClatchy-Tribune Information Services Oct. 27–WASHBURN, Iowa — Grain cooperatives are money-making machines in recent years, thanks to record demand and high prices for […]

Fall Newsletter Posted

Included in the latest issue of the Coop-a-Gram: 2012 Iowa Institute for Cooperatives Annual Meeting agenda and registration information An interview with two Iowa coop board chairpersons who happen to […]

Ag co-ops have record year

Ag co-ops have record year October 2, 2012 By Dave Russell http://brownfieldagnews.com USDA under secretary for Rural Development, Dallas Tonsager announced today that America’s ag co-ops experienced a record year […]

Jim Chism named CEO of Farmers Cooperative Company

September 27, 2012 Farmers Cooperative Company (FC), the largest farmer-owned local agriculture cooperative in Iowa, today announced that Jim Chism, General Manager of Frenchman Valley Farmers Cooperative Inc. in Imperial, […]

Linn Co-op to get boost with E15 sales

From http://thegazette.com The Linn Co-op Oil Co. in Marion will get a big helping of promotional support next week as it becomes one of the first Iowa fuel retailers to […]

‘Everybody goes home’

CEA provides workers with grain rescue gear From Farm News August 31, 2012 BY KAREN SCHWALLER kschwaller@evertek.net LAKE PARK – Job statistics show that farming is one of the most […]

Presentations Available from Board Officers Training

The presentations from the 2012 Board Officers Training on July 11th in Ames have been posted for your reference.  You can find them here: Board Officers Agenda

Stateline Coop to Build Mill

From esthervilledailynews.com EMMET COUNTY – StateLine Cooperative’s Board of Directors has authorized the construction of a new feed mill at Halfa. StateLine Coop, whose main office is in Burt, with […]