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In-Grain
October 2007
Volume 27, No. 10
Grain Elevator and Processing Society
w w w.ge aps .com
GEAPS Officers To Meet With Industry Executives In Chicago
Downtown Chicago at night.
Pods To Sprout In Four Corners Of
Exchange 2008 Expo Hall
i ns i de
Education
Distance-Ed Course Schedule
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Members
New Book Features Old Time Elevators
8
Exchange
Four Booths Left for Omaha
Translation Planned for Exchange 2008
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Membership
Non-Renewers Dropped, Still Welcome
Photo by Shawn Fu (page 2)
In pursuit of mutual goals, a
select group of grain-company
executives has agreed to meet
with GEAPS officers Dec. 8 in Chicago.
The meeting is being organized to help carry out GEAPS’
comprehensive marketing initiative, designed in part to bring the
organization into closer alignment
with the needs and priorities of
key industry leaders and their
companies.
GEAPS representatives at
the meeting—including International President Mike Myrick and
Associates Vice President Steve
Ginter—will ask for advice about
how the organization can improve
its programs and services. What
the executives suggest will be presented to the International Board,
and, as feasible, incorporated into
GEAPS’ strategic plan.
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Education has always been
a feature of the GEAPS Exchange
expo, where grain-industry professionals and grain-industry equipment converge like readers and
books. If you’re in grain-operations,
there’s no better way to learn what’s
on the market. You can see and
touch the equipment, talk directly
to the people who make it, and
even buy it.
But in Omaha next February,
we’re expanding on the concept.
We’ll be offering equipment-oriented educational “pods” in all four
corners of the expo hall.
(continued on page 9)
Pods in action.
The Knowledge Resource for the World of Grain Handling Industry Operations
Leadership
Nominations Please:
Leadership, Award Candidates Needed
October is when GEAPS gathers nominations for leadership positions and award candidates, and this year, we’re asking all members to participate in the process.
Several leadership positions will become open next year. They include three positions
on GEAPS’ International Board of Directors, and four on the Associates Board of Directors. In
addition, we’re also seeking a candidate for second International vice president.
If you know someone interested and qualified, please let us know by Oct. 15. Nomination forms are available from the GEAPS office — at (952)928-4640; Fax: (952)929-1318; info@
geaps.com.
We’re also seeking candidates for GEAPS awards. They include:
Industry Leader, presented to anyone—GEAPS member or not—who has provided
extraordinary service to the grain industry.
International Member of Distinction, an honor for GEAPS members who have made
outstanding contributions to the organization.
Chapter Member of Distinction is an award bestowed by individual chapters.
The Corbett Award, named in honor of John Corbett, a lifetime member from the
Kansas City Chapter, recognizes outstanding service to GEAPS and is presented by Associate
members to Associate members.
Longevity Awards – International and Chapter. Each year, GEAPS honors members
who reach 25- and 50-year membership milestones.
For more information about GEAPS nominations, please check www.geaps.com.
Wanted: DirectaSource Photo
Do you have a great facility
photo that you’d like to show-off to
fellow GEAPS members? Well, now
is your opportunity to have your
facility featured on the front cover
of the next GEAPS DirectaSource.
If you’re interested, don’t delay
in submitting your photos, because
we need them by Nov. 1. If your
facility photo doesn’t make it on the
cover, we might use it in future print
or web publications. Don’t worry,
we’ll be sure to give you and your
facility credit.
The photo needs to be highresolution, preferably in a digital
format. You can send your photos
to Jason at [email protected] or
mail them to GEAPS at the address
above right.
GEAPS
http://www.geaps.com
4248 Park Glen Rd
Minneapolis MN 55416 USA
Phone (00-1) 952-928-4640; Fax (00-1) 952-929-1318
Email [email protected]
GEAPS’ vision is to be “the knowledge resource”
by providing key information in these “core
competencies:”
• Grain Quality Management
• Grain-Handling Equipment Management
• Handling Systems & Operations
Technology Management
• Facility Operations Management
• Agribusiness Environment &
Management Practice
• Human Resources Management
• Property & Casualty Risk Management
By providing information relevant to these seven
skill sets or knowledge categories, GEAPS aims to
meet the needs of grain-industry professionals, and
to help them successfully perform their jobs.
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October 2007
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GEAPS Staff
David Krejci
Executive Vice President
Hope Cook
Manager, Member Services
Chuck House, editor
Manager, Communications and
Professional Development
Julia Kloehn
Manager, Chapter Services
Amy McGarrigle
Manager, Member Services & Information
Joanne Rabatin
Operations Administration Associate
Jason Stones
Manager, Member Services and Publications
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Juli Wagner
Manager, Administration & Meeting Services
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Education
With Green Light, GEAPS And Purdue
Unveil Distance-Ed Course Schedule
After getting the green light last month
from GEAPS’ Distance-Education Program
Oversight Committee, member-volunteers
and partners at Purdue University officially
scheduled several new and repeat courses, and
continued efforts to get them ready.
The new courses include:
“Fuel Ethanol Production: Fundamentals,
Operation and Management,” scheduled for January and February 2008; and
“Safety Management of Grain and Processing
Facilities,” scheduled for June and July 2008.
Registration for the ethanol course—the
first in a series of ethanol-production courses
planned by the committee—will open in
December. Registration for “Safety Management” is likely to open next May. To accommodate anticipated demand, both courses will be
repeated later. (See adjacent calendar.)
All GEAPS-Purdue courses limit the
number of students to 50, in order to preserve
class quality and maximize opportunities for
student participation.
The GEAPS-Purdue program offers fiveweek, CD- and internet-based courses that
closely follow GEAPS’ core priorities for educational programming. Course topics are
selected by the oversight committee—all
GEAPS members. Members also have a hand in
selecting faculty and developing the presentations, and making sure that the presentations
meet goals and industry standards.
GEAPS members are entitled to a substantial discount on the enrollment fees.
PURDUE
Dr. Dirk Maier, the program director, and
new Program Manager Matt Roberts, both of
Purdue, lead the effort. Roberts was hired on
a full-time basis recently in response to strong
industry interest in additional distance-ed
programming. Mike Kiel of The Andersons
heads the DEPOC.
Other courses scheduled include:
Electrical Safety For Grain Facilities, scheduled for January and February 2009
Grain Entrapment Rescue, scheduled for
March and April 2009
GEAPS/Purdue Distance-Education
Course Schedule
Ethanol Production II, scheduled for JuneJuly 2009, and
2008
Aeration System and Fan Operations Management, also set for June-July 2009
Other GEAPS-Purdue courses planned
include:
January-February
Quality Grain Management
Stored-Grain Pest Management
Quality Management Systems
March-April
Facilities Planning & Design I
Equipment Maintenance for Grain Facilities
Fuel Ethanol Production III
Several courses that have already been
offered will be repeated, the committee determined. “Quality Grain Management,” which
sold out twice previously, will be re-offered in
January and February 2008. Facilities Planning
and Design I—first offered in June 2005—will
be re-offered in March 2008.
Fuel Ethanol Production:
Fundamentals, Operation and
Management
June-July
Safety Management of
Grain-Handling and Processing
Facilities
Management
2009
January-February
Electrical Safety For Grain Facilities
March-April
Grain-Entrapment Rescue
Management
June-July
Ethanol Production II
Dirk Maier
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Matt Roberts
Aeration System Design and
Fan Operation Management
Mike Kiel
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Industry News
Two Hurt In Dust Explosion At Feed Plant In Iowa
Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier — Iowa
OELWEIN — A dust explosion at a feed
and pet food plant in rural Fayette County
Sept. 25 injured two people and destroyed a
conveyor belt.
Emergency officials were called to International Ingredient Corp. northwest of Oelwein
shortly before 11 a.m., said Oelwein Fire Chief
Wallace Rundle. Dust ignited on a conveyor
belt, which stretches about 85 feet roof-tobasement, and the explosion knocked out
several doorways, a computer monitor and
four windows, casings included, Rundle said.
The conveyor belt is used to transport organic
material used to make food for animals, Rundle
said.
“There was quite a concussion,” Rundle
said.
Despite a lot of smoke, Rundle said the
explosion was mostly contained. The building sustained no structural damage and fire
damage was minimal, he added.
“We just thought we’d have something
worse than we did,” Rundle said.
Two employees, one male and one female,
were treated at the scene for minor injuries by
medical personnel and declined transportation for further assistance, Rundle said.
Elevator Owner Dies After Bin Engulfment In Illinois
News Tribune, WJBC News, Illinois
MAZON, ILL. — A 33-year-old elevator
owner died near Mazon Sept. 25, after being
covered with soybeans in a storage-bin mishap
at the facility.
Sean P. Garkey, of Ottawa, the chief executive officer of Access Ag Inc., on Grand Ridge
Road, west of Mazon, was pronounced dead
at 4:58 a.m.
Chief Deputy Grundy County Coroner
Phyliss Dralle said rescue teams were called to
the grain elevator at 11:30 p.m. Sept. 24 after
Garkey was reported covered by an avalanche
of soybeans.
According to news sources, Garkey and
another man had climbed into the bin trying
to unclog an auger that was transferring beans
out of the bin. Garkey was sucked into the bin,
which carried more than 250,000 bushels of
beans, the coroner’s office said.
The incident is being investigated by
Grundy County Sheriff’s Police, the coroner’s
office and the federal Occupational Safety and
Health Administration.
Grain Company Mergers In Indiana Often Driven By Rail Access Issues
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, Indiana
A Wabash-based, farmer-owned cooperative grew into a business with $225 million expected in annual gross sales and 240
employees through a series of mergers.
North Central Cooperative Inc. was formed
in 1987 when the Wabash County Farm Bureau
Cooperative merged with its Kosciusko County
counterpart, sales manager Ron Pettet said.
North Central has undergone five more
mergers since then, including a deal with
Fulton-Marshall Farm Bureau Cooperative
Association Inc. that closed Sept. 1.
North Central Co-op is not the only farm
services business that has grown through
mergers. Most counties started their own farmer-owned cooperatives in the 1920s, Pettet
said. As farms have grown larger and more specialized, these farm supply and grain storage
companies have also consolidated.
The number of state-licensed grain storage companies shrank nearly 16 percent
between 2001 and 2006, according to the
Indiana State Department of Agriculture. The
agency licensed 268 grain storage companies
last year, compared with 318 companies in
2001. The figures do not include federally
licensed grain storage companies, which typically operate in multiple states.
Some grain storage companies merged
to improve their access to railroads, said Ken
Klemme, assistant director of economic development for the Indiana State Department of
Agriculture. It is less expensive to ship grain
to buyers by train instead of by truck. If two
companies have access to different railroads,
that can be a powerful incentive to merge,
he said.
Railroad access helped drive a two-part
merger between three cooperatives—EMP
Co-op Inc., Auglaize Provico and Minster
Farmers Cooperative Exchange—that serve
northeast Indiana and western Ohio. The
Sept. 1 deal created Wapakoneta, Ohio-based
Advanced Agri-Solutions Co-op.
In Indiana, the number of grainstorage companies has dropped
sharply, while company storage
capacity keeps going up.
The combined cooperative has access to
Norfolk Southern and CSX rail lines, said Larry
Hammond, president and chief executive of
Advanced Agri-Solutions Co-op. EMP Co-op
brought its connection to the Norfolk Southern
railroad to the merger. Auglaize Provico had
access to CSX rail lines. Being able to transport
grain on either railroad will help the Advanced
Agri-Solutions Co-op access markets with the
most demand and highest prices, he said.
Merging offers one way to increase a
cooperative’s available grain storage space.
Cooperatives need more storage space to
handle the massive amounts of grain farmers
are selling, Klemme said. Instead of dropping
off wagons full of grain from 100-acre farms,
modern farmers may deliver grain in tractortrailer rigs.
As the number of state-licensed grain storage companies declined, the remaining companies have increased their storage capacity,
according to the Indiana State Department of
Agriculture. State-licensed grain companies
had 444 million bushels of storage capacity
in 2006. The storage capacity was nearly 53
percent larger than in 2001, when the licensed
companies had space to store 291 million
bushels.
A merged farmer-owned cooperative can
employ a small staff to oversee a large amount
of storage capacity, said Corinne Alexander,
an assistant professor at Purdue University in
West Lafayette. That is critical because grain
elevators have profit margins as narrow as 2.5
to 3 cents a bushel. They succeed by handling
large volumes of grain.
Grain elevators are facing growing competition, Alexander said. Farmers can choose
to store their grain at the farm or sell it directly
to livestock farms or alternative fuel plants,
a growing market for corn and soybeans. A
larger cooperative’s economies of scale allow
it to be more competitive, she said.
“They’re getting bigger to be able to compete with the other (grain) buyers like ethanol
and biodiesel plants,” Alexander said.
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Engulfed: North Dakota Man Talks About His Close Call
Bismarck Tribune, North Dakota
STREETER, N.D. — You don’t have to convince Alan Ruff how dangerous grain bins are.
He nearly died in one last January.
It was a close call, Ruff acknowledges. He
tells his story somewhat reluctantly, wishing it
never happened at all, but he hopes his brush
with disaster might help someone else.
It was late October when the Ruff family
finished combining sunflowers last year. Ruff
farms with his brother, Ken, and their father,
Harry. The family has grown sunflowers for
74 years.
The last of the sunflowers went into a
15,000-bushel bin the Ruffs had rented from
the Farmers Co-op Elevator Co. The bin is
about 25 feet tall and 30 feet in diameter, likely
built with Commodity Credit Corp. storage
money.
“I say it was just like quicksand. It’s
sucking you down.”
– Alan Ruff
“Most farmers fill them to the top and
don’t leave a ring of space. We didn’t have
enough flowers so we didn’t have it completely
full. That’s why I was up there,” Ruff said.
The flowers were put in the bin at 12 percent moisture—a few 14 percent—not exactly
optimal, a bit less than the 10 percent moisture
level that’s best. The top of the seed pile stood
about 4 or 5 feet down the side.
In retrospect, Ruff says he should have run
the fans longer in the fall. He should have—
could have—let them run 24 hours a day for
10 days, but probably didn’t do that.
Ruff and brother Ken decided to sell sunflowers, partly because of storage conditions.
At 9 a.m. on Jan. 17, Ruff went to the bin and
started augering seeds out from the north side.
He’d pulled out about 150 bushels out when
he stopped.
“I thought, ‘I’d better go check to make
sure we don’t have a crust on top,”’ he
recalled.
Ruff switched off the take-out auger, but
he left the tractor running and a semi-trailer
truck running. He saw a crust. It was about 9:10
a.m. when Ruff entered the bin, up a ladder on
the south side. He had taken a shovel with him,
and set about scooping pieces of crust out of
the manhole.
He wasn’t seeing the characteristic
“funnel” form in the top of the grain, above the
take-out auger in middle of the bin. A chunk of
crust came down. Ruff—almost near enough
to the wall to touch it—laid his shovel aside to
grab the chunk.
“That’s when I went down,” he said.
Ruff was up to his waist in shuffling, shifting sunflowers, but he thought it was no big
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deal.
“I didn’t even get excited at all,” Ruff said.
“There were only 150 bushels out of the bin.
I was dressed pretty warm. I’ll start yelling. I
figured it might be an hour or two before the
guys in the (elevator) house would know that
I was in here.”
Moments later, things took a turn for the
worse.
“All of a sudden, I felt myself slipping a
little bit more, a little bit more ... a little bit
more. And now I’m up to here,” Ruff said, pointing to his upper chest.
“Then I really started yelling"almost like a
panic mode. You start thinking of your daughter, your family—this and that. Then, I told
myself, ‘God, if I’m going to die, I’m going to
die. It’s up to you.’
“I made my peace. I was thinking about
how mean I was being to my family, because
now I’m not there to help the wife out, the
brother out with the farming. My thought
process changed.”
Just then, he heard a voice from above.
Scotty Mittleider, one of the hired men at
the elevator, had heard Ruff’s calls for help and
had crawled up the ladder. That was a miracle
in itself, Ruff said, because he knew Mittleider
had a phobia for heights. But he had crawled
25 feet to the top of the bin, on one of the ladders only about a foot wide.
“And he’d crawled all the way up that
ladder and threw a rope over toward me,”
Ruff said.
Mittleider’s rope was too short. “’Scotty,’
I said, ‘You’ve got to go get help, get Jeff (Williams, the co-op manager). Because I’m still
sinking,”’ Ruff recalled telling Mittleider.
Every time Ruff moved, more grain would
come down.
“And that crust was up there,” Ruff said.
“I thought, ‘all I need is for that crust to come
down - even knock me out yet.”’
Ruff told Mittleider that he would put his
cap over his face to prevent the sunflowers
from getting into his mouth and choking him.
If he went under, he said, he’d hold his arm
straight up, so that rescuers might locate him
if he became submerged.
Mittleider went down the ladder and
soon was replaced by Jeff Williams, the grain
elevator manager, who had a longer rope.
Now, Mittleider entered the bin and Williams
stayed outside by the manhole.
“I wrapped it around my arm, and they
started pulling and I thought they were going
to rip my arm off,” Ruff recalled. “I didn’t budge
at all.”
Then Mittleider came in and held the rope
while Williams went to call 911.
It was about 10 a.m. Two other elevator
workers entered the bin and started shoveling grain away from him. Soon there were
four. Ruff started to think about whether his
rescuers might become victims in the sinking
sunflower seeds.
He told the men they needed to bring
planks and ladders up into the bin to prevent a
bigger tragedy. Boards were brought in.
Rescuers cut a hole in the side of the bin.
They shoveled the sunflowers, man-to-man,
out of the hole in the wall.
“I was still going down a little bit at a time,”
Ruff said. “But finally they could get the rope
down underneath my arms, and I was close
enough to a sidewall, that they took a Come
Along (tool) and tied the rope to a vent.”
Still, there was no pulling Ruff out—
even with the rope under his arms. The men
kept digging until only his lower legs were
covered.
With one man still digging in front of him,
three other men—pulling together—gave a
mighty heave.
“I popped free,” Ruff said. “The guy in the
middle, I landed over the top of him. That’s
how hard they were pulling.”
Ruff’s position in the bin must have made
a difference, he said, because the men around
him somehow were able to walk out of the
seeds even though they also were up to their
knees.
“All of a sudden, I felt myself slipping
a little bit more, a little bit more ...
a little bit more. And now I’m up to
here (chest-level). Then I really started
yelling.”
– Alan Ruff
“It’s like a suction,” he said.
In retrospect, Ruff says he made at least
three mistakes.
“One, I didn’t have a mask on,” he said.
“Two, I laid the shovel down because a
big chunk (of grain crust) came down, and I
laid the shovel down to grab that chunk. Just
when I laid that shovel down, that’s when I
went down.”
Third, he did not have another person
outside the bin.
He and other farmer friends wonder if
somehow the grain had frozen at some kind
of slant in the bin. When the air was turned
on, he thinks some spots that did not freeze
as much—or more—created a sort of slanted
“tunnel” that made the grain drain at an unexpected angle.
“Even a couple elevator guys said, ‘How
come you couldn’t get out?”’ Ruff said. “They’d
say they could jump into grain up to their waist
and walk out. I say it was just like quicksand.
It’s sucking you down. When you jump on the
grain, you’re pushing it down; this was pulling
me down.”
Industry News
U.S. Ethanol Industry Hitting Some Bumps In The Road
From Slate — By Daniel Gross
For years, economists, environmentalists,
and poverty activists have been hating on
ethanol. It’s impractical; it boosts food prices
and promotes industrial farming. Their scorn
didn’t much matter, because there was huge
political and social momentum for ethanol
production. But now the market is turning on
ethanol, too. Ethanol stocks are sinking. Looking at a two-year chart of Verasun, Aventine
Renewable Energy, and Pacific Ethanol against
the S&P 500, all three are down more than 60
percent. Earth Biofuels, which traded at $7
a share in May 2006, now trades for about
5 cents. A gallon of ethanol for November
delivery trades at about $1.57 per gallon today,
down from about $1.90 in July. As the Wall
Street Journal put it recently: “Ethanol Boom
is Running out of Gas.”
One could blame exuberant investors for
the swift rise and fall of ethanol. But the government probably bears more responsibility.
Though macroeconomic factors have spurred
the ethanol industry—declining domestic oil
production, rising energy use in developed
markets, and a growing desire for so-called
energy independence—government incentives have played a huge role in stimulating
the ethanol boom.
Of the many federal ethanol incentives,
the most significant is a 51-cent-per-gallon
tax credit given to refiners or blenders who
mix ethanol with gasoline. Investors have
responded rationally to this incentive, which
effectively subsidized production: They’ve
built a great deal of production capacity. U.S.
ethanol production tripled between 2000
and 2006. Last year, 4.8 billion gallons were
produced. In his State of the Union address,
President Bush called for the United States to
produce 35 billion gallons of renewable fuels
in 2017. As of this spring, according to the
Renewable Fuels Association, there were 120
ethanol refineries with a capacity of 6.2 billion
gallons per year and enough refineries under
construction to more than double existing
capacity by early 2009.
But manufacturing ethanol is only part
of the story. In order to penetrate the broad
consumer market, a manufactured good needs
efficient and pervasive distribution and retail
systems. And in these areas, the government
hasn’t provided anywhere near the level of
incentives it has to producers. As the Energy
Department notes, ethanol presents many
distribution challenges. The best way to distribute liquid fuel is via pipeline. Not so for
ethanol, which mixes more easily with water
than oil does. And because “ethanol is a better
solvent than gasoline … initial shipments in a
previously existing pipeline could pick up a
lot of impurities that had accumulated in the
pipeline.” Sending ethanol through pipelines
would corrode them more rapidly. And the
existing pipeline network, heavily focused on
the South, doesn’t extend to the heartland,
where ethanol is produced. As a result, most
ethanol is shipped by comparatively inefficient
and expensive means such as rail and trucks.
Nor does it appear that incentives have
been set at such a level that they would
encourage gas station owners to install the
pumps and equipment necessary to sell a
purer version of ethanol—E85. As of early 2007,
according to the Energy Department, there
were only 1,200 U.S. fueling stations offering
E85. A search of the handy ethanol station
locator reveals nine stations that provide E85
in New York state, but six are for government
use only and three are marked “PLANNED—
NOT YET ACCESSIBLE.” And the incentives
clearly haven’t been sufficient to encourage car
manufacturers to make more (or for mechanics
to retrofit more) flex-fuel vehicles that can run
on ethanol. There are only about 5 million on
the road today.
In other words, the lion’s share of inducements have gone to production—call it supply-side energy policy. But crudely stimulating
this ethanol is actually the cause of the ethanol
backlash. As production increases, the price
of the commodity used in the process (corn)
rises. So does the price of the expertise and
materials needed to build capacity. During the
railroad boom, the cost of steel and the salaries
of engineers rose. During the dot-com boom,
the cost of fiber-optic capacity and the salaries
of Web programmers rose. The Wall Street
Journal reported that the cost of building a
new ethanol plant has risen from $1.50-pergallon last year to $2.20 per gallon today.
The combination of rising commodity
prices and production costs and a glut of
product makes it more difficult for the manufacturers to turn a profit. In the second quarter,
Verasun’s gross margins shrunk to 19.2 percent,
compared with 41 percent in the same quarter
the year before. In its second quarter, Aventine
gross margins shrunk from 11 percent to 6.9
percent. Verasun said earlier this week it would
suspend construction of a refinery in Indiana.
Critics of ethanol have long argued that
ethanol production subsidies are a half-baked
industrial policy scheme intended to reward
politically powerful farmers in the Midwest.
The gulf between the rich incentives for creating ethanol supply and the poor incentives
for creating wholesale and retail distribution
suggest the critics were absolutely right.
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Grain Shipping Rebounds At Great Lakes’ Twin Ports
West Central Tribune, Minnesota
DULUTH, MINN. — The grain business is
bouncing back in the Twin Ports of Duluth and
Superior, Wis.
After two straight years of record-low
grain shipments, 2007 appears to be seeing a
rebound at Duluth-Superior elevators.
The Duluth Seaway Port Authority lacks
up-to-date statistics, but officials believe the
port’s year-end numbers will show a significant
increase in exports. A steady stream of oceangoing ships has been calling in recent weeks.
“For the last few months, we’ve probably
been as busy as we’ve ever been in the past 10
years,” said Lance Helgeson, superintendent
of the Cenex Harvest States grain elevator in
Superior, Wis.
Some elevators are running out of capacity to store all the grain heading their way.
The export market for U.S. wheat has
been stoked by poor crops in Europe and
Australia, while farmers in North Dakota and
Minnesota have produced a bumper crop of
high-quality wheat.
A bushel of spring wheat that would
have sold for about $3.50 a few years ago now
fetches farmers double that. Some premium
wheat has been selling for more than $10 per
bushel.
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Marketing
GEAPS Officers To Meet With Industry Executives
Names of participating executives will be
announced later.
The meeting will be the second of GEAPS
Grain Company Executive Advisory Council,
a group of about 24 industry leaders from
large, medium-sized and small grain companies across the U.S. and Canada. Part of the
Council met with GEAPS officers March 18 in
San Francisco.
The meeting in Chicago will include five
or six other Council members. According to
plan, all members of the Council will meet
with GEAPS officers, on a rotating basis, at least
once every three years.
The Chicago meeting will be held just
before the National Grain & Feed Association’s
annual Country Elevator-Feed Industry Conference set for Dec. 9-11.
A third Grain Company Executive Advisory
Council meeting is planned in conjunction
with NGFA’s annual conference next March in
Scottsdale, Ariz.
GEAPS’ marketing initiative also involves
direct communications with a group of approx-
imately 40 other industry executives who have
agreed to take part. This month, for example,
the group received the first issue of GEAPS’
new Executive Update, a monthly, one-page
news briefing that describes current activity,
especially as they pertain to executive’s perceived interests.
They also receive the monthly newsletter,
In-Grain. Council members also receive the
Update and the newsletter.
GEAPS Grain Company Executive Advisory Council
Following is the roster of GEAPS’ Grain Company Executive Advisory Council. The Council
provides advice and counsel to GEAPS’ International Board about the relevance, value and effectiveness of GEAPS’ strategic plan. The Council serves as a direct link between GEAPS’ memberleadership and executive levels of the grain-operations industry.
Harry Bormann
John McEnroe
John Brammeier
Jon Setterdahl
Grain Merchandiser, Max Yield Cooperative, West Bend, IA
Grain Marketing Div. Manager, Co-Alliance, Frankfort, IN
Mike Conklin
Chief Executive Officer, Coop. Agric. Producers, Inc., Rosalia, WA
John Fletcher
General Manager, Central Missouri AGRIService, Marshall, MO
Roger Fray
Executive VP, Grain, Director of Operations,
West Central Coop, Ralston, IA
Dave Geers
President, Michigan Ag Commodities, Lansing, MI
Dave Gordon
General Manager, Northwest Grain Growers, Inc.,
Walla Walla, WA
B. Scott Gower
Vice President-Commodity Operations,
Riceland Foods, Inc., Stuttgart, AR
VP Operations, Co. Ops Group, CHS, Inc., St. Paul, MN
Grain Marketing Manager, Farmers Cooperative,
Farnamville, IA
Fran Marron
Grain Team Leader, AgPartners, LLC, Albert City, IA
Mike Nordwald
General Manager, Ray-Carroll Co. Grain Growers,
Richmond, MO
Gary Olsen
Senior Vice President-Grain, AgProcessing, Inc., Omaha, NE
Ron Olson
Vice President-Grain Operations, General Mills, Inc.,
Minneapolis, MN
Bailey Ragan
Vice President, Bunge North America, St. Louis, MO
Hal Reed
President, Grain & Ethanol, The Andersons, Maumee, OH
Jerald Kemmerer
Steve Rockhold
Fran Malecha
Lon Saucier
CEO & General Manager, Dodge City Cooperative Exch.,
Dodge City, KS
Chief Operating Officer, Viterra, Inc., Regina, SK
Mike Mandl
Director of Operations, Louis Dreyfus Commodities,
Kansas City, MO
Dir., Strategic Brewing Materials, Coors Brewing Company,
Golden, CO
Dir. Of Operations, Midwest, ConAgra Trade Group, Inc.,
Omaha, NE
Richard Willey
President, Perdue Agribusiness, Salisbury, MD
Tom Madru
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General Manager, Grain Division, Kokomo Grain, Inc.,
Kokomo, IN
About Members
Old-Time Grain Elevators Depicted
In New Book By GEAPS Members
GEAPS members Barb and Bruce Selyem
of the Country Grain Elevator Historical Society,
Bozeman, Mont., have just published a new,
180-page hardcover book, “Old Time Grain
Elevators.”
The book compiles, updates and extends
a series of articles and color photographs by
the couple that were printed over the past ten
years in Grain Journal magazine. In coffee-table
style, it features old elevators across much of
North America, and pays homage to their rural
settings, histories, architectures and nostalgic
beauty—as well as to the people who ran
them.
The book’s subtitle, “Stories and Photography Of A Vanishing Way of Life,” reflects its
approach. Many of the facilities described (by
Barb) and depicted (by Bruce) have been battered by the years and the elements and are
gradually eroding away—or face imminent
destruction by the forces of progress. Some,
like an old elevator in Annandale, Minn., which
had been painted with historic murals, are
already gone, knocked down since the authors
first came to visit.
“On March 10, 2000, Carlson Construction demolished the elevator… and hauled it,
murals and all, to the dump,” an update to the
original article says.
To compile the material, the Selyems
visited old country elevators throughout the
U.S. and Canada, and it’s clear that they left
the well-traveled path to get the job done. Featured are facilities in Floydada, Texas; Ottoville,
Ohio; Peetz, Colo.; Piatt Switch, Ill.; Mozart,
Sask.; and similar small communities stretching
from Delta Junction, Alaska, to Dawn, Ohio.
Often, the Selyems tracked down and
interviewed former the elevator owners
or managers—or their families and neighbors—to gather elevator histories, perspectives and memories that provide the book with
a human dimension.
Stephens
Promoted
At GSI Group
For example, in an
article about a 73-yearold facility in France, Ida.,
the authors quote Julia
Egbert, the daughter of
a former elevator manager.
“The elevators have
been part of our lives, all
of our lives,” she said. “...
The smell of grain was
amazing and wonderful.
For snacks, we chewed
on the raw wheat…”
In another article,
about a 100 -year-old
elevator in Corbin, Kan.,
former manager Carl
Stiles recalled a predecessor.
“He ran the elevator for 33 years. It wasn’t
unusual for him to get
drunk and go fishing for
three days in preparation
for harvest… But he was always sober when
he worked…”
Another article recalls the facility in Floydada, Texas, still standing but unused at age
80. Originally, there was no truck dump, so
the owner rigged up a block-and-tackle from
an overhead beam. “One end of the rope was
attached to the farmer’s truck and the other
end to mules,” the book notes.
Through the stories and the photographs,
the Selyems depict simpler times, in which the
country elevator served as a commercial, social
and community hub. Today, as they continue
to fade out of the landscape, they evoke “a
sense of nostalgia.”
“Under its silhouette, our families worked,
played and prayed together. It is a cultural
monument that identifies who we were and
who we are,” the book says.
The Country Grain Elevator Historical
Society, which the Selyems founded in 1995,
promotes the preservation of country elevators and their history.
To purchase a copy of the book, contact
Barb or Bruce at (406)388-9282; bselyem@
grainelevatorphotos.com. The price is $25 plus
shipping and handling.
Former GEAPS Associates Board President
Ted Stephens, GSI Group, has been promoted
to technical sales manager supporting material
handling equipment to provide technical sales
support to the company’s eastern region.
Stephens’ responsibilities include sales,
dealer/contractor enhancement and development and other sales support initiatives.
Stephens ser ved as an inside sales
representative for GSI material handling product prior to his promotion.
He joined GEAPS in 1998 and served as
president of the Associates Board in 2005-06.
Ted Stephens
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Exchange
Omaha
Just 4 Booths Available For Exchange 2008
We’ve known for a several months that
the Exchange 2008 expo hall would sell out
quickly, and now we know it even better. With
more than five months left to go before the big
show begins, only four booth spaces remain
available.
The other 322 have been snapped up.
“After these booths are taken, we’re going
to create a waiting list, but people shouldn’t
assume that they can go down to the wire
before making a decision,” said Associates
President Rob Schutte. “If you want to exhibit,
you need to speak up now. We don’t want to
exclude anyone, but it’s just a fact. We have
limited space and a lot of demand.”
In all, the Exchange 2008 expo is going to
be some 33 percent larger than the Exchange
expo this year in Grapevine, Texas. It will have
at least 75 more booths and 40 more participating companies.
To accommodate the unusual demand
this year, GEAPS has already expanded the
Exchange ‘08 expo-hall floor plan once. A
second expansion would require a significant
commitment, and is currently not on the
agenda.
An estimated 2,000 people from around
the world are expected to attend Exchange
’08, set for Feb. 23-27 at the Qwest Center in
downtown Omaha.
Ed Program Translation
Planned For Exchange
GEAPS will once again be offering simultaneous English-to-Spanish translations
of selected educational programs at the
Exchange, GEAPS member-leaders have
decided.
Exchange delegates typically include
grain-operations professionals from Argentina
and Mexico, as well as other countries in Latin
America. Translation services have been provided at several previous Exchanges.
Exchange 2008, set for Omaha next Feb.
23-26, is expected to be one of the largest in
years. Some 2,000 people from around the
world are likely to attend.
Pods To Sprout In Four Corners Of Exchange 2008 Expo Hall
(from page one)
The Exchange 2008 pod theme is grainquality assessment, and so our Educational
Programming Committee is arranging for
hands-on demonstrations of equipment such
as moisture meters, dockage testers, aflatoxin
testers and grain-grading tools.
Last year, the Exchange in Texas offered a
single pod, as a trial run, to determine whether
people liked the format. They did. The feedback was overwhelmingly positive. And so,
we’re moving a big chunk of the education
program out of the lecture hall and into the
arena in a major way.
A detailed pod schedule is still being
worked out by the EPC. However, count on
approximately 12 presentations, offered
throughout expo hours on Monday and
Tuesday, Feb. 25 and 26. The typical expo-hall
viewing, shopping and networking will occur
simultaneously.
When the hall isn’t open, the EPC will be
offering the other main segment of our educational program. It will include:
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•A morning-long workshop
on how to recruit, hire
and retain good workers
in the grain industry;
•Approximately 18 45-minute-long sessions on
key issues facing the
industry;
•Idea Exchange, featuring
new products and bright
ideas;
•A special career-day session
for college students; and
•A comedian, just to keep
it real.
The EPC, led by Chairman
Pat Greer and Vice Chair Kathy
Reading, consists of 25 Regular and Associate members,
who organize and manage all
components of the Exchange
educational program.
Scenes from the 2007 expo pod.
Welcome these new members who joined in the months
of July, August and September.
New Members
Canadian Prairies
Jody Duclos
Larry Kulczycki
sponsored by Clarence Heckert
Cherokee Strip
Will Bramblett
sponsored by Tod Gragg
Stan Miller
sponsored by Kelvin Woods
Cornbelt
Michelle Bethel
sponsored by Carl Sellmyer
Keith Bohnker
Michael Britton
sponsored by Josh Weakly
Brad Cantrell
sponsored by Tom Conroy
David Fluty
William Hammer
Matt Masters
Elaine Schaub
sponsored by Richard Schaub
Joseph Tinder
sponsored by Kirk Haverland
Golden Triangle
Randy Thomure
Great Plains
Steve Britt
sponsored by Buzz Tourangeau
Jeff Frizell
Steve Reed
Heath Roker
Chuck Shipp
David Studebaker
Great River
Bill Stice
sponsored by Rick White
Greater Iowa
Mike Abiltrup
sponsored by Kevin Danner
Mark Amundson
sponsored by Mark Gaunt
Dwight Bluml
sponsored by Susan Ehlers
Jacob Bolson
sponsored by Shawn Cogdill
Korey Meinders
sponsored by Tom Trueblood
Dan Noland
sponsored by Mike Sibert
John Sziber
sponsored by Larry Hoffman
Jim Tholund
sponsored by Mike Blum
Greater Nebraska
Dustin Drake
sponsored by David Drake
Gulf South
Matt Boucree
Ernst Fahnestock
sponsored by Jerry Gibson
Hoosier
Bill Klee
Lester Lowe
sponsored by Tim Sullivan
Lesa Van Meter
Intermountain
Seth Flitton
sponsored by Jim Williams
Joseph Noble
sponsored by Jim Williams
Kansas City
Brian Aust
Jerry Caylor
sponsored by Joseph Kneib
Brend King
sponsored by Randy Stauffer
Jeffrey Lyons
sponsored by Tim Kloster
Joe Neville
sponsored by Tim Kloster
Michigan/So. Ontario
Normand Belanger
sponsored by Ryan Kreager
Mark Cunningham
sponsored by Lloyd Cunningham
Colleen Emerick
Brad Myatt
sponsored by Peter Myatt
Woflgang Seltner
sponsored by Dave MacMillan
Mid-America
Zach Drake
sponsored by Rachel Wirthele
Jeff Wearden
sponsored by Mike Ireland
Joe Zitek
sponsored by Randy Stauffer
Robert Zozaya
Non-Chapter
Curt Anderson
Jason Eichler
DJ Kok
Milton Paulo Silva
Richard Smith
North Iowa
John Hanig
Oregon Trail
Justin W Corman
sponsored by John Deal
Marlin Davis
sponsored by Kevin Heiman
Andrew Haag
Brenon Vlasin
Seaway
Keith Barrows
sponsored by Jeff Altfillisch
Brenda Bragg
sponsored by Stacy Schmidt
Ralph Clevenger
sponsored by Randall Broady
Bill Kale
sponsored by Jeff Hahn
Walter Martin
Erin McKillip
Lisa Schubert
sponsored by Jim Herring
Vancouver
Dennis Einhorn
Mark Fast
sponsored by Toivo Makila
Gleen Jeffrey
Deborah Imhoff
Jim Matterson
Paul McDonald
sponsored by Dave Kushnier
Jim McGreevy
Andrew Nelson
Dan Polhill
Nando Rato
Jim Rees
Dan Rezka
Jack Simington
Antonio Vigna
Pino Vigna
Richard Wojtowicz
Siouxland
Chris Blair
Andrea Eddy
sponsored by Paul Geraets
Snake River
Lee Volkman
Twin Ports
Richard Kaplan
Gary Pearson
sponsored by Jim Lehto
Mid-Atlantic
Chad Allen
sponsored by Bill Jefferson
Dennis Cross
sponsored by Bill Jefferson
Mid-South
Basil Aumiller
Minneapolis
Bill Amend
sponsored by Ernest Percy
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Chapter News
Kansas City
The Kansas City Chapter held its August
meeting on the 14th at the Bunge Milling facility in Atchison, KS. Twenty-three members and
guests were in attendance to tour the facility. It
was nearly 104 degrees! Dinner followed at the
River House Restaurant in Atchison.
Seaway
The Seaway Chapter held its September
meeting on the 11th at the Colonial Golfers
Club in Harrod, OH. Twenty-five members and
guests were in attendance to listen to Robert
Nicholson of JDRM Engineering, Inc. speak on
the topic of arc flash safety requirements.
members and guests were in attendance. First
Place winners, sponsored by CPR, included
Billy Mallon, Rob Mallon, Yves Lebreque, and
Pritam Lamba. Second Place winners, sponsored by Lamba & Associates, included Arto
Huhtinen, Glen Major, Larry Naismith, and
Gord Martin. Third Place winners, sponsored
by GEAPS Association, included Bill Warren,
Craig Hainrich, Harold Sinfield, Dan Oger, and
Brian Amadeo. The Shushak Memorial Trophy,
sponsored by P&H, was awarded to John Malcolm. Finally, the Closest to Hole Competition
winners included: Hole #2 - John Malcom, Hole
#8 - Art Lee, Hole #11 - Paul Vandenberg, and
Hole #14 - Art Lee.
Thunder Bay
The Thunder Bay Chapter held its Annual
Golf Tournament on July 19th at the Fort William Country Club in Thunder Bay, Ont. Ninety
Tri-State
The Tri-State Chapter held its September
meeting on the 12th at Dyers BBQ in Amarillo,
TX. Fourteen members and guests were in
attendance to listen to Eric Kelley speak on
the topic of meeting planning for the 20072008 year.
Twin Ports
The Twin Ports Chapter held its September
meeting on the 19th at the Hammond Steak
House in Superior, WI. Twelve members and
guests were in attendance to listen to Gary
DeLong of Novecta speak on the topic of
Hazard Analysis and Quality Control.
Vancouver
The Vancouver Chapter held its September
meeting on the 19th at the Cheer Restaurant
in North Vancouver, B.C. Thirty-three members
and guests were in attendance to listen to Al
Kirton of the Canadian Wheat Board speak on
the 2007/2008 Crop and Harvest Update.
Membership
Non-Renewing Members Dropped From Roster (But Still Welcome Back)
After climbing to a four-year high, GEAPS
membership dropped sharply last month—but
we saw it coming. In fact, the totals plunge
similarly every year about this time, when we
purge our database of people who haven’t
paid their dues.
Approximately 414 people are no longer
on board. They lose all GEAPS privileges,
including their subscription to this newsletter,
sizable registration discounts on all GEAPS
programs and services, the annual member
directory, the e-mail news alerts, and so on.
Of course, everyone dropped from the
roster is welcome to rejoin the organization—
without penalty. But they do have to come up
with the $175 annual fee. It was due July 1, the
beginning of our fiscal year.
Typically, GEAPS retains about 81% of its
members—an indication of how loyal people
are to the organization. This year, the figure is
even likely to be a bit better. Unofficially, we’ve
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held on to about 84% of our members.
Membership totals typically hit their
annual low after the purge, and then begin
climbing—past the Exchange and through
most of the summer—when we hit our peak.
In August 2007, GEAPS total membership hit a
four-year high of 2,601. At the end of September, the total was 2,183, but by early October,
the total already began to climb back.
GEAPS Membership By Type: 1999-2007
Date
Total Roster
Total Paid
Regular
Associate
Lifetime
Affiliate
10/02/07
2,206
2,095
1,194
868
111
28
8/01/07
2,601
2,490
1,426
1,009
111
41
8/01/06
2,518
2,407
1,358
970
111
49
6/30/06
2,472
2,360
1,321
963
112
46
6/30/05
2,550
2,438
1,362
993
112
48
6/30/04
2,500
2,385
1,299
955
115
48
6/30/03
2,701
2,586
1,440
1,013
115
58
6/30/02
2,793
2,667
1,548
1,060
113
59
6/30/01
2,892
2,795
1,657
1,107
97
31
6/30/00
2,948
2,854
1,694
1,122
97
35
6/30/99
2,937
2,845
1,642
1,167
90
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