FARMERS COOP UNION

DEPARTMENTS - PHOTO ALBUM - DIRECTORY/LINKS            

Welcome to your Coop's web site!

Organized in 1917 at Sterling.   Now includes Lyons, Alden, Pollard, Saxman, Bushton, Chase, Frederick, Lorraine, Geneseo, and Claflin.

This site is continually being updated in order to better inform you of what is going on here.

Your Coop consists of eleven locations to receive grain, seven cardtrol gas facilities, four full service gas stations, a tire truck, three feed mills, animal health products, bulk LP and fuels delivery, crop consulting, fertilizer and chemical sales and application, anhydrous ammonia, and dry and liquid fertilizer.

Closing Grain Prices for 5/14/08      

Wheat: 7.56, DN 24  Milo: 5.06/bu, DN 10 Corn: 5.50,  DN 10 Soybeans: 12.55 DN 2

NC Wht '08 7.50 DN 24 NC Milo '08 5.42 DN 10  NC Corn '08  5.80 DN 10 NCBeans '08 11.95 UP 5  

NC Wht '09 7.44, DN 16 Sunflowers  24.00, UNC

We are now contracting new crop grain only while the markets are open from 9:30 until 1:00 Monday thru Friday.  We also have  a 1,000.00 Bu. minimum.

5/14/08 LDP'S Wheat $.00, Corn $.00, Milo $.00/CWT., Beans $ .00,  Sunflowers  $.00

Wheat loan rate 2007: Rice $2.95, Reno $3.02, Barton  $2.90, Ellsworth $2.93

Corn loan rate 2007: Rice $1.99, Reno $2.01,  Barton $2.05,  Ellsworth $2.05

FOR STATISTICS ON GRAIN PRICES REFER TO THE "DEPARTMENT PAGE-GRAIN"

TO GO TO THE CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE, OR THE KANSAS CITY BOARD OF TRADE, PAGE TO THE DIRECTORY AND LINKS PAGE AND HIT THEIR LINK.

NC stands for New Crop bid.  N/A = Not Available Currently.

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the changes onto the web is sometimes later and beyond our control.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     It looks like we have a good moisture situation going into spring, so plan ahead on crop needs.