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Preparing for harvest
Farmers aren’t the only ones preparing for harvest.
Heritage Cooperative’s grain division manager Ed Nienaber says there are 22 grain facilities with nearly 26 million bushels of grain space to get ready. “What we’ve done to this point is do the best we can getting all of our facilities pretty much to the point where they are cleaned out of last year’s crop,” he says. “And obviously the industry and the basis has given us the opportunity to do that and is wanting us to do that.”
Nienaber says the co-op is also working on transportation logistics. “We’re getting trains lined up at all of our unit train facilities to get 65 car trains lined up at those houses for when bean harvest starts,” he says. “And then we have to continually have trains coming in to keep the pipeline fluid and keep product moving out as it continues to come in to the elevator.”
And he says, being able to turn around the rail cars to keep the supply chain moving – is one of the biggest concerns Heritage has going in to harvest.
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