Roger's and Dan's Summer Update
- Published On:8/5/2011
- Author:Roger Kienholz
- Categories:Credit, Admin, Board of Directors
Mid-summer greetings! Judging from a recent trip to Fargo over the 4th of July weekend, our trade area in south-central Minnesota has the best looking crops in the state. Other places are certainly wetter and later in their crop development than those in our geography. Like our parents always told us, “things could always be worse.”
Mark your calendars for one of the upcoming Customer Appreciation Pork Chop Dinners to be held on September 13th and 14th. In the past, we’ve held three of these events: one in the west area at LaSalle; one in the central area at Nicollet, Lake Crystal, or Vernon Center; and on in the east area at Janesville. This year, we are combining the western and central appreciation dinners with a single one to be held at our Highway 60 site in Madelia. This will double as out Open House for the new 4.5 million bushel grain storage building being completed this summer.
Later in August, Crystal Valley will be mailing out equity revolvement checks to our patrons. These tax-free returns will be for deferred local and regional equities from 1996 for Crystal Coop, LaSalle Farmers Grain, Southern Valley Coop and Tri-County Coop. In addition, we’ll clean up all the remaining old regional equities from the Southern Valley and Janesville-Waseca Ag Cooperatives.
The feed division recently completed a major upgrade to the mill in Janesville. A micro-ingredient and computerized automation system was installed to improve the feed milling efficiencies and reduce the amount of manual labor required. Additional storage for DDGs was installed along with modification of the receiving system in order to not tie up a grain dump while bringing in feed ingredients.
If you haven’t been following the construction progress on our new grain storage project in Madelia, you can do so by going to the Crystal Valley website home page and clicking on the link. The roof is nearly finished, the floor will be poured soon after, and then millwork will need to be completed. We plan to be ready well before corn harvest.
Thank you for your patronage.