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MAC grain facility expansions ready for growing production

Michigan Agricultural Commodities grain storage expansions will be complete at several locations this harvest season.

Vice President of Merchandising Robert Geers tells Brownfield increases in yields and northern production regions led to the additions.

“We had another successful wheat crop where we saw acres up big time this year and a yield of 83 bushels,” he shares. “We’re expecting again a big corn crop, we’ve got 2.4 million acres in.”

Geers says finished projects include a half million-bushel storage bin at their Newago facility, MAC’s Middleton organic facility adding 200,000 bushels of storage and a 110,000-bushel storage pad, and the company has started leasing grain storage at Kalmbach’s Middleton facility.

He says the added space will likely provide additional value immediately to growers with markets currently suppressed from lagging export sales this year.

“China has been looking at more of South America, so we’re going to struggle on the export side for soybean demand this year,” he says.  “Corn demand continues to be steady, but we also are struggling on the export sales side as well.”

Geers says about two-thirds of the state’s grain production stays in the state with the remaining third supplying livestock producers in the southeast.

Photo courtesy of MAC.