HEARTLAND COOP
5550 SE 64th Ave., Carlisle, Ia 50047 515-471-1454

The Carlisle Chamber of Commerce is pleased to feature Heartland Coop.

And talk about business.....Did you know Heartland Coop:

• is the 24^th largest Co-op in the nation.

• can load 100 railroad cars full of corn in an 8 hr period. (This is equal to 400,000 bushels and is 1 mi in length)

• is completely automated and monitored on a computer. 

• storage capacity is 5.4 million bushels of corn

• plus could store another 1.3 million bushels in a warehouse that is presently being used to store fertilizer.

• handled 22 million bushels of a corn last year.

• corn no longer is dried at this facility, only stored.

• unloaded 258 trucks of corn in a 9 ½ hr. day last year.

The Heartland Coop purchased the elevators in 1993 from the Avon Grain Company and handles corn and beans grown by our local farmers and also receives grain from some of the other co-ops.  Heartland has 28 grain facilities throughout Central Iowa.  This facility has 10 full-time employees.  Most of their corn is shipped to the Imperial Valley in Arizona for cattle feed.  They ship corn as far away as California and Mexico.  The cost to ship corn to California is approx. $290,000 for 100 cars.  This was done 35-40 times last year.

Pictured is Mike Sibert, Manager.  Carlisle is very happy to have Heartland Co-op located in our community.