Stoney Point area producers benefit from increased grain storage and intake capacity

AGRIS Co-operative is pleased to announce the completion of $3 million in upgrades at its Stoney Point site with the addition of a new grain intake and steel storage bin.

Thanksgiving Monday was very busy at the Stoney Point branch with many producers delivering their crop and seeing first-hand the results of the construction that included the new intake, a half million bushel bin storage for soybeans and a half million flat storage for corn.

“Many things have changed in farming since farmers opened up the Stoney Point branch in 1947,” says Jim Campbell, AGRIS Co-operative general manager. “This is just the latest example of how the capacity of the co-operative changes to keep up with how farmers increase the speed at which they harvest their crop,” says Campbell.

With intake capacity increased to approximately 25,000 bushels per hour the first customer of the day, Robert Chauvin said he could not believe he was finished so quickly. "I thought they were just signaling to move ahead for the second wagon,” said Chauvin.

Further improvements for the Stoney Point branch are also underway with the building of a new 1,400 metric ton fertilizer storage shed that will replace the previous older unit. This project is expected to be completed by the end of October.

To see a complete library of photos of the full construction of the new additions visit: http://www.agris.coop/index.cfm?show=65&mid=1079

Great Lakes Grain is a grain marketing partnership between GROWMARK, Inc. and AGRIS Co-operative Ltd. Great Lakes Grain is one of the largest operators of Ontario country elevators representing close to 440,000 MT (17 million bushels) of storage capacity with total marketing in excess of 37 million bushels serving farmers at more than 24 AGRIS Co-operative and FS PARTNERS branded locations from Windsor through to Toronto and north to Georgian Bay.