USA— Greenfield Grain LLC, a subsidiary of Denver-based Greenfield Holdings LLC, is seeking permits to build a US$20 million-plus grain elevator and loading dock on the Ohio River on a 25-acre site in Henderson, Kentuky.
Plans for the facility, which would handle corn, soybeans and winter wheat, would include four concrete grain storage silos measuring 140 feet tall with a diameter of 50 feet and storage capacity of 185,000 bushels, said Chris Case, Greenfield’s director of operations.
The barge loading system would be capable of taking grain from the silos or pits. Case said the speed of operation would be of particular interest to local producers. He said that the facility would have three truck pits with a capacity of 30,000 bushels per hour, and that it should be able to handle 500 trucks per day.
Farmers’ second concern is efficiency at the elevator. “A grain elevator that can reduce wait times for farmers and their drivers will help our efficiency and get them back in the fields, especially when we’re having a really good crop and need to get trucks back to unload combines as fast as possible,” he noted.
In December, Greenfield Holdings completed the acquisition of four key assets — Lake Providence, Parkdale, Crowville and Dunn — located in Louisiana and Arkansas from subsidiaries of Agspring, LLC. This was part of its plant to build the country’s foremost integrated grain platform.
“Our mission is to create the world’s most efficient and sustainable grain handling and logistics network for the future of agriculture,” the company said.
It hopes to construct a US$400 million grain export complex on the Gulf of Mexico in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana, which will create 371 new jobs in the community with annual labor income of more than US$26.5 million per year.
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