Feed & Grain

Location Management

Vic Richards is the Feed/Grain Department Manager for FCA. Vic has been a lifetime resident of Campbell County and has extensive ranch experience and is well known among the customer base of FCA. He is joined by a very capable team of employees that are eager to serve the needs of the members and customers.

From Left: Steve Duffy, Ashley Handran, Jim Edwards,
Bart McCollum, Cody Blanthorn, Johnny Land, Vic Richards

Ashley Handran works with customers at the front counter, Jim Edwards, Cody Blanthorn, Bart McCollum and Johnny Land work in the warehouse. Steve Duffy is the truck driver for deliveries to our customers with bulk feed. New to the FCA team there is Livestock Specialist, Andy Swenson. Andy has been the General Manager of the Johnson County Cooperative for the last 2 years, and was Territory Sales Manager for Walco International for a number of years before that. He runs some of his own cows and has experience as a herd manager for several ranches. He is a graduate of Montana State University in Animal Science with emphasis on ruminant nutrition. The employee team appreciates your business and will do their best to give you quality service with the quality products offered at the 1st Street location of FCA.

Grain Market Volatility
The increased interest from exporters was relatively brisk even amid rallying prices.  Wheat future price surging to nearly eight dollars a bushel drew out additional farm sales.  Others held back their remaining 2010 crop, as they hope prices would continue to escalate.

Premiums on hard red winter wheat with proteins with less than twelve percent, were ten cents higher. With proteins with 14% dropping eleven cents on the Kansas City September future.

The surge in wheat future prices encouraged some spring wheat producers to sell ahead additional supply, as the harvest begins to pick up momentum. Rail road fell further behind Schedule in placing rail cars, and completing shipments. Which raise concerns not only for current grain movement needs, but how rail road will be able to handle what is to be expected to be the largest spring wheat crop since 1996. Delays of a week to 10 days were common.

General Information
At the Farmers Cooperative Association Elevator the employee team strives to offer customers a wide range of quality products at an affordable price, prompt customer service and on ranch consulting and delivery. At our 1st Street location in Gillette, we are fully stocked in both CHS and Purina bagged feed, we also try and supply our customers with a variety of specialty feeds upon request. In an area full of livestock where bulk feeds make more sense, we have partnered with CHS to supply our producers with grains, liquid feed (from QLF), tubs (Smart Lic) and cattle cakes and creep to fit their individual needs. CHS offer a wide range of high quality products and a strong nutritional support team to assist us in any way required.
We have both an 8 and a 15 ton bulk delivery truck for on ranch services of bulk grains, cattle cake, and calf creep. This is a complement to CHS ability to supply on ranch delivery of full semi loads (23 ton) of feed. We also have a panel truck set up with liquid feed tanks for bulk on ranch delivery. Two converted anhydrous ammonia tanks help our QLF customers reduce costs with self-serve capabilities.
For any customers that need to determine the value of their feed and forages, we can take samples and have them analyzed by Servi-Tech laboratories. With this information we are able to suggest to our producers which feeding system best fit their needs. Todd Olson, our CHS representative, spends 2 days a week in our area and can be reached on his cell at 307-752-6199. We have a wide range of fencing supplies from wire and T-Posts (all heavy 1.33 grade posts) to blunt wood posts. Livestock equipment from such reputable suppliers as Powder River, Priefert, and Behlen Country. In addition, our store carries vaccines, animal health and livestock supplies, electric fencing by Gallagher, lawn and pasture fertilizer and a wide variety of chemicals for the control of weeds and pests. We offer seed cleaning and treating capabilities for whole grains and at our East yard we have the storage capacity for 450,000 bushel of wheat for our area farmers.