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MANAGER’S DESK
Jerald Kemmerer-CEO/GM
I hope your summer is going well. We have had quite a mixture of summer weather with some moisture then back to the summer heat. I hope that between the subsoil moisture and amount of rain we have received this summer, it will be enough to produce a fairly good fall crop. We will need to continue to receive more moisture to finish off the crop over the next couple of months. Our Wheat harvest receipts were about 82 % of last year and 85% of our average crop. This year’s wheat crop had fairly good
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test weights and good protein but so did the whole state of Kansas. Earlier rains would have been needed for better stand and larger yields. The later rains prior to wheat harvest did help the berry fill prior to harvest and gave us a good start on the fall crops. We completed harvest without any major down times and are still seeing the benefits of the capital projects we have completed the last few years plus the current ones. The Howell project is almost complete with only the inbound scale left to be installed. The Ensign project is in the process of pouring concrete at the time of this letter for more storage. The Montezuma outbound scale is
scheduled to be finish soon. Not only are these projects very helpful to you the member/owner but it also helps the team of employees with operation planning and etc. Thank you to those who were able to attend and celebrate your coop’s 103rd anniversary this past May. I thought Mitch Holthus, the voice of the Kansas City Chiefs, did a great job with his speech. Each year, as a team of employees, we meet to see how we can improve on the annual meeting. If you attended the annual meeting we apologize if you did not receive a steak or a complete meal. We have addressed that and plan on next year to give out meal tickets to those
Inside This Issue 2 Safety 3 Ace Hardware - Grain 4 Feed 5 Agronomy - Turf 6 Agronomy - Turf 7 AV Energy - Board of Directors