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REVIEW OF OPERATIONS
2014 completion. A limited liability company formed
with MKC (Mid Kansas Cooperative), Moundridge,
Kan., is constructing a high-speed shuttle site in
Canton, Kan., with more than 3 million bushels of
grain storage capacity.
Country Operations
With almost 500 locations, CHS Country Operations
continues to add value for 75,000 producer-owners and
provide another tool for member cooperatives whose
owners choose to fully align with CHS. Delivering one
of its best years ever in 2013, CHS Country Operations
continued to provide essential products and services
to crop and livestock farmers throughout rural
America and, most recently, Canada.
Early in the fiscal year, CHS DynAgra became the
first Canadian entity to join CHS Country Operations.
Based in Alberta, CHS DynAgra has three decades
of experience providing seed, crop nutrients, crop
protection products and services, and financing
to farmers in Canada’s primary grain-producing
region. Mergers with Larsen Cooperative, New
London, Wis., and Ostrander Farmers Co-op, which
the burgeoning Chinese market, CHS formed a joint
venture to build a facility at the Port of Nantong along
the Yangtze River. A new organizational structure with
enhanced business management capabilities in the
Asia-Pacific region is expected to help CHS expand
its presence there as the system continues to develop
market access for its owners.
CHS Europe operations underwent organizational
restructuring in fiscal 2013 with the goal of finding
new eciencies and adding value for grain origination
operations in the Black Sea region. The business also
worked to strengthen relationships with origination
and export partners in the region, including its terminal
joint venture at Odessa, Ukraine.
CHS also invested in infrastructure during fiscal 2013
to give U.S. producers additional competitive access
to global markets. A major expansion now under
way at Kalama, Wash. — part of the CHS-Cargill
TEMCO export terminal joint venture — is expected
to significantly increase speed and capacity of rail
unloading and loading of vessels largely bound for
China and other Asia-Pacific destinations. In the
nation’s heartland, CHS acquired a facility on the Illinois
River near Pekin, Ill., establishing an additional corn and
soybean origination point to supply export markets
through its Myrtle Grove, La., terminal.
Inland origination expanded as well, through
CHS partnerships with member cooperatives.
Construction of a high-speed grain shuttle loading
facility that will include liquid fertilizer capacity is in
process near Superior, Neb., with Aurora Cooperative,
Aurora, Neb. The project is the first in an innovative
program allowing a member cooperative to commit a
portion of its CHS equity as funding and is slated for
3M
Wheat harvest is under way at the Kenny and
Dahm families’ Bar Box Farm and Ranch near
Standard, Alberta, Canada. The operation is a
CHS DynAgra customer.
17CHS 2013
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