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Contents GENERAL INFORMATION About EBM

EBM Construction History

Our Services

Design and Facility Planning

New Construction

Project Management

Facility Expansion and Renovation

Maintenance and Repair

Emergency Shutdowns

PROJECTS Pillen Family Farms Product Spotlight

Thomas Livestock Product Spotlight

Folken Feed Yards Product Spotlight Grain Journal Spotlight

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Livingston Enterprises, Inc Product Spotlight

Central Valley Ag Product Spotlight Grain Journal Spotlight

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Ag Coop Services Product Spotlight

Farmers Ranchers Co-op Association Product Spotlight Grain Journal Spotlight

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Cooperative Supply, Inc Grain Journal Spotlight

Company Profile

Awards

Conclusion

General Information About EBM

EBM Construction specializes in serving the needs of the feed and grain industry throughout the central United States. EBM Construction offers everything from minor repairs to major remodels and new construction, including: • Grain Storage & Handling Facilities • Feed Mills • Feed Lot Feeding & Grain Equipment • Facility Related Office/Warehousing • Seed Cleaning & Bagging • Feed & Grain Facilities Development

EBM Construction History EBM Corporations can trace its beginning to 1976 when Clayton Ellsworth founded the company in Tilden, Nebraska. His son, Guy Ellsworth, joined him full-time in early 1981 and they moved the company to Norfolk, Nebraska. In 2012, Andrew Ellsworth followed in his grandfather and father’s footsteps and started working full-time at EBM.

EBM’s millwright services work extensively throughout the central United States, primarily in Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas and Missouri 4

EBM started by fabricating equipment for the fertilizer industry. As the business grew, equipment installation, repairs, facility remodels, and construction of new grain handling facilities soon followed. Today, EBM Construction’s projects span the central United States, from Texas to North Dakota, and from Wyoming to Illinois. EBM’s dedication and expertise has propelled them to be one of the most successful and respected agricultural companies in the Midwest. EBM Construction has the expertise, experience, and technology to help their customers compete in today’s energetic feed and grain environment.

Our Services

Design and Facility Planning At EBM Construction, we understand there are many items to take into account in the planning of a new facility and we are here to assist. We work with our customers to understand their specific needs in order to configure the best possible grain storage, grain handling, or feed mill facility.

New Construction When the perfect budget and design meet, that is when the construction crew’s job starts. Our experienced millwright crews fabricate the project carefully and systematically. Relentlessly looking for ways to improve the efficiency of every project at hand is what makes us the best. When the project is complete, the end result is an efficient, highly capable, feed and/or grain facility. We are a modern millwright service. Our construction crews maintain a safe working environment and work in accordance with OSHA.

Project Management

Our millwright services offer everything from minor repairs to major remodels and new construction.

Our Project Managers are one of the many reasons why we should be your first choice when choosing an agri/industrial contractor. Our Project Managers deal with the long-term planning of the project, coordinate the subcontractors and equipment, have full and complete knowledge of the construction site, and control the project from beginning to end. They communicate effectively and resolve issues smoothly. 5

Facility Expansion and Renovation Many of our customers have used EBM Construction in the past. The relationships developed are those of mutual respect and admiration. Like new construction jobs, we design and implement a plan based upon budget, time, space, and specifications. Unlike new construction, our familiarity with the job site is second nature and the customer feels like family. When working on a facility expansion and/or renovation for a new customer, we take the time to understand the facility as if it was our own. We familiarize ourselves with the production load, layout of the structure, and equipment needed to complete the job.

We are a modern millwright service. Our construction crews maintain a safe working environment and work in accordance with OSHA. 6

24/7

In case of emergency, we are available 24/7. When issues arise, we act fast, because time is money.

Maintenance and Repair

Emergency Shutdowns

Our services are not limited to new construction, expansion, or renovation. From time to time, our customers will need their feed and grain facilities to be maintained and/ or repaired. General maintenance and repair are normal and to be expected. No matter how preventative a company may be, typical wear and tear will happen. When this occurs, we are there to help.

In case of emergency, EBM Construction is available 24/7. There may come a point when a company’s facility is not working properly, or broke down altogether. When these issues arise, we act fast because time is money.

Product Spotlight

Pillen Family Farms Albion, NE

Grain Receiving Facility & Feed Mill Completion Date: Spring, 2017

MODULAR SQUARE BIN SYSTEM Ingredient Bins • (18) 3,850 Cubic Feet Compartments • (1) 1,925 Cubic Feet Compartments • (2) 962 Cubic Feet Compartments

Load Out Bins • (8) 3,080 Cubic Feet Compartments • (8) 1,540 Cubic Feet Compartments

MIXING SYSTEM

• (1) Horizontal Twin Agitator Ribbon Mixer »» 255 Cubic Feet Mixing Capacity • (1) Surge Hopper & Conveyor • (1) 6,000 Cubic Feet/Hr Bucket Elevator • (1) Major Scale Hopper • (1) Minor Scale Hopper

GRAIN STORAGE BINS

• (2) 105’ Diameter Grain Bins »» Total capacity - 853,414 BU/Bin

GRAIN HOPPER TANK

• 30’ 11” Diameter »» Total Capacity - 36,779 BU

SCREW FEEDERS

• 10 Gauge Trough Construction

AIR GATES ROLLER GRINDER SYSTEM MICRO INGREDIENT SYSTEM

INGREDIENT RECEIVING SYSTEM

• (1) 10,000 Cubic Feet/Hr Bucket Elevator • (1) 10,000 Cubic Feet/Hr Receiving Conveyor

TOTE BAG SYSTEM TRUCK SCALES

• (1) 11’ x 120’ Load Out Truck Scale • (1) 11’ x 80’ Receiving Scale • (1) 14’ x 80’ Drive Over Scale

MILL BUILDING

• 90’ x 144’ x 18’ Eave Pre-Engineered Metal Building

• (12) 2.8 Cubic Foot Poly Hopper with Auger • (12) 5.6 Cubic Foot Poly Hopper with Auger

CHOICE WHITE GREASE SYSTEM • (2) 10,000 Gallon Tanks

Product Spotlight

Thomas Livestock Merna, NE

MODULAR SQUARE BIN SYSTEM Square Ingredient Bins • (6) 2,000 Cubic Feet Compartments • (6) 1,000 Cubic Feet Compartments • (1) 800 Cubic Feet Compartment

Feed Mill Addition Completion Date: Spring, 2018

Square Load Out Bins • (2) 1,280 Cubic Feet Compartments • (8) 640 Cubic Feet Compartments • (1) 800 Cubic Feet Compartments (COBS)

MIXING SYSTEM

• (1) Horizontal Ribbon Mixer »» 158 Cubic Mixing Capacity • (1) Surge Hopper & Conveyor • (1) 5,000 Cubic Feet/Hr Bucket Elevator • (1) Major Scale Hopper

SCREW FEEDERS

• 10 Gauge Trough Construction

AIR GATES MICRO INGREDIENT SYSTEM

• (8) 2.5 Cubic Feet Poly Hoppers with Auger • (8) 5.6 Cubic Feet Poly Hoppers with Auger

TOTE BAG SYSTEM CHOICE WHITE GREASE SYSTEM • 10,000 Gallon Tank

ROLLER GRINDER SYSTEM

INGREDIENT RECEIVING SYSTEM • (1) 5,000 BU/Hr Bucket Elevator • (1) 5,000 BU Receiving Conveyor

INGREDIENT RECEIVING TRUCK SCALE • (1) 11’ x 70’ Electronic Truck Scale

AUTOMATION SYSTEM MILL BUILDING

• 80’ x 120’ x 18’ Eave Pre-Engineered Metal Building

• (1) Double Pair Roller Mills • (1) 5,000 BU/Hr Scalper

GRAIN STORAGE & RECLAIM SYSTEM • (1) 24,882 Commercial Hopper Bin

Product Spotlight

Folken Feed Yards Leigh, NE

HOPPER BIN

• 9’ Diameter, Peak Height 54’ 1” »» Total Capacity - 15,581 BU

RECEIVING SYSTEM Feedlot Equipment Update Completion Date: Spring, 2018

• 15,000 BU • 8’ x 4’ Bypass Inlet

RECEIVING LEG

• 15,000 BU • 50 HP Motor for 81’ Discharge Height

TOWER

• 8’ x 8 ‘ x 73’ • Two-Way Platform • Hopper Bin Eave Access Platform

WET CORN GRINDER DRAG SOAKING BINS • (2) 8 ‘ x 12’ x 34’ »» Total Capacity - 2,500 BU

RECLAIM SYSTEM

CONCRETE WORK

• Receiving Tunnel • Tower Base • Hopper Tank Foundation • Square Bin Foundation

• Bin Unload Auger • 2,000 BU Reclaim Drag • 2,000 BU Reclaim Leg • 12’ Long Cut and Fold Auger with Two-Way and Bin Fill Spouting

RELOCATE EXISTING ROLLER MILL • 24’ Unloading U-Trough Custom Roller Mill Frame • Collection Hopper

High-Moisture Corn Facility FEEDYARD REPLACES OLD GRINDING FACILITY WITH A BIGGER, MODERN ONE

New high-moisture corn grinding facility at Folken Feed Yards near Leigh, NE. Feedyard with maximum 10,000-head capacity visible in the background. Photos courtesy of EBM Construction Inc. Folken Feed Yards

Supplier List

Leigh, NE • 402-276-0501

Bucket elevators ............... Chief Agri Contractor ... EBM Construction Inc. Conveyors ........................... Chief Agri Elevator buckets.............Maxi-Lift Inc. Engineering .. Lammers Engineering LLC Gates/diverters ........Abel Mfg. Co. Inc. Level indicators........BinMaster Level Controls Magnets ........ Bunting Magnetics Co. Millwright.... EBM Construction Inc. Motion sensors ..4B Components Ltd. Screw feeders......... Norstar Industries Square bins ..............Lowry Mfg. Co. Steel storage ..................... Chief Agri Tower support system ...... Chief Agri

Founded: 1941 Cattle finishing: 8,500-9,000 head at any one time Feed grinding: 2,500 bph Finished feed storage: 600,000 bushels Number of employees: 8-9 Key personnel: • Chuck Folken, president • Justin Folken, feedyard manager • Jerrod McCullough, operations

t Folken Feed Yards, a northeast Nebraska feed Leigh yard hosting 8,500 to 9,000 head of cattle at any given time, NEBRASKA high-moisture ground corn is the name of the game. “We grind at 25-30% moisture with a window of two weeks during harvest,” says President Chuck Folken, who represents the third generation of Folkens to run the business. (His son, Justin, manages the feedyard, making him the fourth generation.) “Then we put it up in a 600,000-bushel bunker,” he continues. “We find the cattle perform significantly better on high-moisture corn than dry-rolled.”

Reprinted from the July/August 2018 GRAIN JOURNAL

New Chief hopper tank empties onto a Chief 8,500-bph drag conveyor running out to a custom grinding station. Ground photos by Ed Zdrojewski.

The Folkens were feeding their cattle, however, with a rudimentary facility unchanged in more than 40 years. It consisted of an auger feeding a 10,000-bushel square bin mounted atop a steel-sided building containing a roller mill. The cattle feeder hired EBM Construction Inc., Norfolk, NE (800-356-9782), to build a new $1 million corn grinding facility with state-of-the-art technology. “I met (EBM President) Guy Ellsworth on a trip to Savannah, GA,” Folken recalls. “EBM has the reputation of being the best millwright company in our area. They work long hours to make sure everything is right before they leave. I wanted a facility that would be around for my grandkids to use.” Contractors on the project in

Incoming wet corn travels up a Chief 15,000-bph receiving leg supported by a Chief tower.

addition to EBM: • Otte Electric, Columbus, NE (402-564-9996), did electrical and automation work. • Aschoff Construction, Osmond, NE (402-798-3551), supplied concrete and built a new roller mill shed. Construction got underway in May 2017 and took about eight weeks to complete. Ready to Grind The heart of the updated facility is a 15,000-bushel Chief corrugated steel hopper tank, 25 feet in diameter with a 32-foot sidewall and 45-degree steel hopper. This holds wet corn awaiting grinding. Adjacent to the new tank is a portable drive-over receiving pit, which feeds a 15,000-bph Chief leg. The leg is equipped with Maxi-Lift red HD-Max 14x8 buckets mounted on a 16-inch belt and supported by a Chief tower with switchback staircase. The leg deposits grain into an Abel two-way valve. One outlet goes via gravity to the new tank; the other goes to an existing 10,000-bushel tank serving the older roller mill building. That mill is still in use, but EBM installed two new 2,400-bushel Lowry square bins atop the old building serviced by a small jump leg. The hopper tank empties onto an 8,500-bph Chief drag conveyor extending out approximately 100 feet. The conveyor ends with a spout used to feed a roller mill supplied as needed by a local custom grinding operation. Ed Zdrojewski, editor

1014 Sherwood Road Norfolk, NE 68701 1.800.356.9782 www.ebmconstruction.net

Product Spotlight

Livingston Enterprises Daykin, NE

Feed Mill Completion Date: Winter, 2018

MODULAR SQUARE BIN SYSTEM • 28,160 Total Cubic Feet

MIXING SYSTEM

• (1) Horizontal Twin Agitator Paddle/Ribbon Mixer »» 255 Cubic Mixing Capacity

SCREW FEEDERS

• 10 Gauge Trough Construction

AIR GATES AUTOMATION SYSTEM MICRO INGREDIENT SYSTEM

• (20) 9.2 Cubic Feet Hoppers with Auger • (12) 4.6 Cubic Feet Hoppers with Auger

TOTE BAG SYSTEM

• (10) Transfer Augers with Hopper

CHOICE WHITE GREASE SYSTEM • 10,000 Gallon Tank

ROLLER GRINDER SYSTEM

• (2) New 12’ x 54’ Double Pair Roller Mill

TRUCK SCALES

• (2) Electronic Truck Scales

INGREDIENT RECEIVING SYSTEM

• (1) 9,400 Cubic Feet/Hr Bucket Elevator • (1) 9,400 Cubic Feet/Hr Receiving Conveyor • (1) Receiving Hopper

MILL/GRAIN RECEIVING BUILDINGS

• 92’ x 144’ x 18’ Eave Pre-Engineered Metal Building (Mill) • 23’ x 105’ x 18’ Eave Pre-Engineered Metal Building (Grain Receiving)

STORAGE BINS

GRAIN RECEIVING EQUIPMENT

• Receiving Drags, Receiving Leg, and Bin Fill Belt Conveyor »» 20,000 BU/Hr Each

TOWER

• Free-Standing Tower »» Switch Back Stairs from Ground Level

RECLAIM SYSTEM

• Reclaim Drags Under Bins, and to Mill • 4,000 BU/Hr Each

GRAIN PROBE GRAIN RECEIVING SCALE COMMERCIAL GRAIN HOPPER TANK • 30’ 11” Diameter »» Total Capacity - 36,779 BU

• (2) 105’ Diameter Grain Bins »» Total Capacity - 853,414 BU 17

Product Spotlight

Central Valley Ag Hinton, IA

Grain Elevator Rebuild Completion Date: Fall, 2017

SILOS

• (3) Jump Form Silos »» 48’ Diameter »» 140’ Total Height »» Total Capacity - 216,454 BU/Silo • (1) Side Draw for 40,000 BU/Hr for Rail Loading »» Platform to Access Gate • (1) Side Draw for 12,000 BU/Hr for Truck Loading »» Platform to Access Gate • (1) Bin Bob and High Level Sensor/Silo • Kanal System with Side Draw at 15,000 BU/Hr

GRAIN RECEIVING EQUIPMENT • 20,000 BU/Hr Receiving Drag • 20,000 BU/Hr Receiving Leg • 28’ x 8’ Dump Gate • 20” x 6’ Duct Distributor • Receiving Conveyor

RECLAIM SYSTEM

• Reclaim Drag Conveyor • 15,000 BU/Hr Capacity • Reclaim for Silos »» (1) 6,500 BU/Hr Capacity »» (2) 15,000 BU/Hr Capacity

DUMP BUILDING

• (1) 24’ x 52’ X 24’ Eave Pre-Engineered Metal Building »» Power Room - 12’ x 26’ x 10’ 8”

DRY CORN FILL

• Transfer and Silo Fill Drags »» 13,000 BU/Hr Capacity »» Electronic Operated Discharge Gates • Dry Leg • 16” x 3’ Distributor »» Electronic Operated

OVERHEAD LOAD OUT BIN

• (1) 12’ x 12’ x 32’ Bin »» Total Capacity - 3,570 BU • Platform for Truck Fill

Rebuilding a Third of an Elevator CVA INCREASES STORAGE, GRAIN HANDLING CAPACITY AFTER EXPLOSION

Central Valley Ag rail terminal in Hinton, IA added three McPherson Concrete Storage Systems tanks (center) and a Brock grain dryer in 2017. Aerial photo by Judy Hemphill.

Central Valley Ag York, NE • 402-362-0246 � Hinton IOWA

Stanley Kallhoff

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Founded: 2003 Storage capacity: 88.5 million bushels at 52 locations Annual volume: 130 million bushels Annual revenues: $1.1 billion Number of members: 10,000+ Number of employees: 900 Crops handled: Corn, soybeans, hard red winter wheat, sorghum, oats Services: Grain handling and merchandising, feed, agronomy, energy, marketing services Key personnel at Hinton: • Stanley Kallhoff, grain operations manager • Kyle Sitzman, Region 8 operations manager • Jason Myers, CVA ProEdge merchandiser

Supplier List Aeration fans................ AIRLANCO Aeration system ...... North American Equipment Co. Inc. Aeration system installation...Drake Inc. Bucket elevators ............ Schlagel Inc. Concrete ..........Aschoff Construction Concrete tank builder .....McPherson Concrete Storage Systems Contractor ... EBM Construction Inc. Control system........Kasa Controls & Automation Conveyors (belt)...Hi Roller Conveyors Conveyors (drag) .......... Schlagel Inc. Demolition ..............ABC Crane Inc.

Distributor.................... Schlagel Inc. Dryer installation...........McCormick Construction Co. Electrical contractor........ Thompson Electric Inc. Elevator buckets .........Maxi-Lift Inc. Engineering ......................VAA LLC Grain dryer .......Brock Grain Systems Grain temp system ... Tri-States Grain Conditioning, Inc. Level indicators........ Safe-Grain, Inc. Millwright.... EBM Construction Inc. Roof exhaust controls ...Safe-Grain, Inc. Steel storage .............Lowry Mfg. Co.

he Central Valley Ag (CVA) rail terminal that operates in Hinton, IA (712-947-4212) does so with higher storage, receiving, and drying capacities than it did before a March 2016 explosion that heavily damaged a portion of the facility. The Hinton facility stretches north and south along a Union Pacific/BNSF main line in the middle of town. The blast, which injured two employees, damaged the “No. 1 house,” or the central portion of the elevator, including 180,000 bushels worth of concrete storage and a 15,000-bph leg. “We looked at rebuilding that portion of the facility, but the cost-effectiveness wasn’t there,” says Grain Operations Manager Stanley Kallhoff, who moved to the Hinton location shortly before the explosion from a CVA elevator in Elgin, NE. “We tore down that portion of the elevator and built new storage and equipment, and in the process, we gained 450,000 bushels of new storage.” The Project In spite of the damage, the north

Closeup view of three new McPherson jumpform concrete tanks, receiving pit, and Schlagel leg, and a Brock 4,700-bph tower dryer (not pictured is a Brock 4,000-bph dryer). Ground-level photos by Ed Zdrojewski.

and south sections of the elevator were unharmed and were able to remain in operation during the reconstruction process.

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two Brock grain dryers (4,700 bph and 4,000 bph) from the old elevator north to its new location. VAA, LLC, Plymouth, MN (763-559-9100), did structural design on the dryer and leg foundations and bracing. That work was completed during the summer of 2016, while demolition work was underway and the dryer was used that fall, using a new wet leg and new dry leg that were installed next to the No. 2 house. CVA brought in ABC Crane Co.,

Cedar Falls, IA (800-886-0485), to handle the demolition of the No. 1 house. That work was completed and the debris removed so that new construction could begin by the late fall. For the new construction, CVA took bids and hired EBM Construction, Norfolk, NE (800-356-0782), as general contractor and millwright in November 2016. The company also brought in McPherson Concrete Storage Systems, McPherson, KS (800-999-8151), to construct three new jumpform concrete

Pair of Brock tower dryers provide 8,700 bph of drying capacity at five points of moisture removal.

tanks. Additional contractors on the project: • Aschoff Construction, Osmond, NE (866-748-3551), designed and excavated new receiving pits. • Drake Inc., Waco, NE (402-3621863), installed KanalSystem air-assist aeration/unloading floors in the three new tanks. • Thompson Electric Inc., Sioux City, IA (712-252-4221), served as electrical contractor. • Kasa Controls, Salina, KS (785825-7181), did the automation systems. The new section of the elevator was up and running by the end of August, Kallhoff says. Response No. 281

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Rooftop equipment, above, includes the head section of a Schlagel 20,000-bph receiving leg and four-hole Schlagel distributor, as well as a 20,000-bph Schlagel drag fill conveyor. At right, a new 1,000-bushel enclosed receiving pit feeds grain into the receiving leg.

The New Construction The three new McPherson tanks stand 48 feet in diameter and 140 feet tall and hold 217,000 bushels each. Each tank is outfitted with seven-cable TSGC temperature monitoring systems, Safe-Grain radar-type

level indicators, and KanalSystem aeration and air-assist unloading floors. Each tank is equipped with two 40-hp AIRLANCO centrifugal fans plus a 5-hp roof exhauster for aeration at 1/11 cfm per bushel on coarse grains. Two of the

tanks have additional 30-hp fans and one a 50-hp fan for air-assisted unloading. The project also includes a 1,000-bushel enclosed mechanical receiving pit, one of three at Hinton. It feeds grain into a 20,000-bph Schlagel receiving leg equipped with a single row

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Product Spotlight

Ag Coop Services, Inc. Otterville, MO

Feed Mill Completion Date: Summer, 2016

MODULAR SQUARE BIN SYSTEM Square Ingredient Bins • (5) 2,048 Cubic Feet Compartments • (1) 1,168 Cubic Feet Compartment (Dical/Monocal) • (1) 868 Cubic Feet Stainless Steel Compartment (Salt) • (1) 868 Cubic Feet (Fine Limestone) • (1) 976 Cubic Feet Shell & Bone (Coarse Limestone) • (1) 1,168 Cubic Feet (Ground Corn) • (2) 2,455 Cubic Feet (Whole Corn Soy Meal)

Square Load Out Bins • (6) 1,536 Cubic Feet Compartments

MIXING SYSTEM

• (1) Horizontal Twin Agitator Paddle/Ribbon Mixer »» 171 Cubic Mixing Capacity • (1) Surge Hopper & Conveyor • (1) 4,355 Cubic Feet/Hr Bucket Elevator • (1) Major Scale Hopper • (1) Minor Scale Hopper

SCREW FEEDERS

• 10 Gauge Trough Construction

AIR GATES MICRO INGREDIENT SYSTEM

• (16) 5.6 Cubic Feet Poly Hoppers with Auger • (1) Stainless Steel Sub Scale for (12) Bins • (1) 2.8 Cubic Feet Flush Bin with Flush Bin Fill Auger from Ingredient Bin

TOTE BAG SYSTEM HAND ADD HOPPER MANUAL BAGGING SYSTEM CHOICE WHITE GREASE SYSTEM • 10,000 Gallon Tank

ROLLER GRINDER SYSTEM

• (2) 12’ x 36’ Double Pair Roller Mills • (2) 100 HP Grinder Motors • 30 TPH Capacity each on Corn • 18 TPH Capacity each on Barley • (1) 5,000 BU/Hr Scalper

GRAIN STORAGE & RECLAIM SYSTEM • (2) 63,228 BU Capacity Grain Bins

INGREDIENT RECEIVING SYSTEM

• (1) 4,355 Cubic Feet/Hr Bucket Elevator • (1) 4,355 Cubic Feet/Hr Receiving Conveyor

MILL BUILDING

• 80’ x 120’ x 18’ Eave Pre-Engineered Metal Building

Product Spotlight

Farmers Ranchers Co-op Assoc. Ainsworth, NE

Feed Mill Addition Completion Date: Fall, 2016

MODULAR SQUARE BIN SYSTEM Square Ingredient Bins • (9) 1,800 Cubic Feet Compartments • (5) 1,400 Cubic Feet Compartments • (4) 2,800 Cubic Feet Compartments • (2) 2,000 Cubic Feet Compartments • (2) 980 Cubic Feet Compartments • (1) 4,000 Cubic Feet Compartment • (1) 1,960 Cubic Feet Compartment • (1) 1,680 Cubic Feet Compartment • (1) 1,120 Cubic Feet Stainless Steel Compartment (Salt)

Square Load Out Bins • (8) 960 Cubic Feet Compartments

MIXING SYSTEM

• (1) Horizontal Twin Agitator Paddle/Ribbon Mixer »» 255 Cubic Mixing Capacity • (1) Surge Hopper & Conveyor • (1) 6,000 Cubic Feet/Hr Bucket Elevator • (1) Major Scale Hopper

AIR GATES

HAMMER MILL SYSTEM DRYER/COOLER SYSTEM STEAM GENERATOR SYSTEM AUTOMATION SYSTEM

MICRO INGREDIENT SYSTEM

GRAIN HOPPER BIN

SCREW FEEDERS

• 10 Gauge Trough Construction

• (12) 5.6 Cubic Feet Poly Hoppers with Auger • (1) Stainless Steel Sub Scale

PELLET MILLS

• (2) 32W-700 Pellet Mill • (2) Feeder Screws

HAND ADD HOPPER BAGGING SYSTEM

• (1) 22,825 BU Total Capacity Hopper Bin

HYDRATED LIME TANK • (1) 13’-6” x 28’ Tank

MILL BUILDING

• 120’ x 102’ x 18’ Eave Pre-Engineered Metal Building

MOLASSES SYSTEM

• (1) 17,000 Gallon Fiberglass Insulated Tank

Feeding Cattle in Three States NEBRASKA CO-OP BUILDS A NEW FEED MILL AS OLD MILL TOPS OUT ON CAPACITY

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Farmers Ranchers Co-op Association Ainsworth, NE • 402-387-2811 Founded: 1917 Feed production capacity: 68,000 tpy Feed products: Beef feeds Annual revenues: $50 million Number of active members: 2,871 Number of employees: 100+ Services: Feed, grain handling and merchandising, energy, agronomy Key personnel: • Kent Taylor, general manager/ CEO • Rocky Sheehan, feed department manager • Bill Worden, feed mill manager • John McIntosh, mill operator

Supplier List Automation system....Easy Automation Inc. Bag closer ........................Eagle Simplex Bagging system ...........................Imeco Contractor.......EBM Construciton Inc. Conveying Systems.......... Schlagel, Inc. Hammermill ......................Andritz Inc. Microingredient system.................Easy Automation Inc Mixer ...................Scott Equipment Co. Palletizer ....................................Genaire Pellet dryer.................. Bühler Aeroglide Pellet mill............................Andritz Inc. Screeners..............EBM Manufacturing Square bins..........Scott Equipment Co. Steel storage............Laidig Systems Inc., Chief Agri

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Farmers Ranchers Co-op Association’s new feed mill in Ainsworth, NE, the second of two on the South Main Street site. Photo courtesy of EBM Construction Inc.

When Farmers Ranchers Co-op Association first built a feed mill in Ainsworth, NE, in 1978, it was designed to produce 150 tons of mostly beef feeds per day. As of 2015, it was producing 350 to 400 tons per day round the clock. Today, the cooperative serves ranchers over a vast area including north central and northwest Nebraska, as well as large parts of South Dakota and Wyoming, which explains much of the growth. “The 38-year-old mill was still in good shape, and it’s still in operation,” says Rocky Sheehan, director of feed operations and a 25-year veteran of the cooperative. “But we had completely outgrown it.” Even more challenging than producing

enough feed to meet demand was trying to staff six days a week of night shifts. In 2015, the board approved the construction of a second feed mill at the South Main Street site, which began producing its signature 7/8-inch-x-3-inch range cubes at the end of October 2016. “Now, both mills can produce 600 to 800 tpd of feed, and we’re loading 25 trucks per day with both bulk and bagged feeds,” says Sheehan. General contractor on the 13-month, $18 million construction project was EBM Construction Inc., Norfolk, NE (402-371-2945). “EBM has been working with us since 1980,” says Operations Manager Bill Worden, who

Two Bühler Aeroglide dryers replace conventional pellet coolers at the Ainsworth mill. They are designed to increase range cube shelf life by removing all water activity. Photo courtesy of EBM Construction Inc.

has been with Farmers Ranchers for 29 years. “They’ve always done good work, and we can always call on them and get whatever we need day or night.” Unique Features The second mill on the site has a couple of unique features, according to Worden. One is its two pellet lines dedicated to the manufacture of range cubes. Another is the use of Bühler Aeroglide cube dryers rather than conventional pellet coolers. The dryers are 55 feet long, 15-1/2 feet wide, and 17 feet tall mounted 30 inches off the floor, which were unloaded and installed with a permanent 5-ton overhead bridge crane. The 3-million-BTU dryers are aspirated with 70-hp worth of heated, forced air and operate at 20 tph. Worden says the dryers, fed directly from the pellet mills, remove moisture from the cubes, increasing their shelf life to a year by removing all water activity. Finally, the project included construction of a 33-foot-diameter, 80-foottall Laidig steel tank for storage of distillers dried grains (DDGs). The tank is equipped with a 45-degree steel hopper bottom with a Laidig auger designed to prevent the product from caking into a solid mass, a frequent problem with DDGs, and eliminating the need to enter the tank for cleanout.

From left: Bill Worden, feed operations manager; Rocky Sheehan, feed department manager; and Kent Taylor, general manager. Photo by Jennifer Beel.

Mill Specifications The new all-steel mill and adjacent warehouse add 13,000 square feet of space under roof to the Ainsworth complex, with the mill itself standing on a 110-foot-x-78-foot footprint. The manufacturing plant is topped by 26 steel feed ingredient bins holding approximately 780 tons total. Storage also includes four 25-ton mash feed bins above the pellet mills, as well as eight 24-ton and four 50-ton finished feed bins above the truck loadout bay. All mill operations are under the control of an Easy Automation system. Incoming whole grains are reduced on a 25-tph Andritz Sprout hammermll before being sent to feed ingredient storage. Ingredients are mixed in a Scott 255 cubic feet, four-ton double-ribbon mixer in an average of four minutes per batch. Microingredients are added to the mixer from a 12-bin Easy Automation microingredient system. Mash feed is molded into range cubes on a pair of Andritz Sprout 20-tph pellet mills. The new mill loads feed trucks six hours a day through overhead spouts equipped with EBM Gentle Roll screeners. Approximately 5% of the mill’s output is bagged on an Imeco bagging system with Eagle Simplex bag closers. A Genaire robotic stacker loads bags onto pallets. “We can now do the same production in 10 hours that used to take us 24 hours on the old mill by itself,” says Sheehan. Ed Zdrojewski, editor

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EBM Corporations SERVING THE AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY FOR 40 YEARS

any successful companies get their start by building upon an established foundation of knowledge and experience and turning it into a thriving and dynamic enterprise. That was certainly the case with EBM Manufacturing Co., a division of EBM Corporations, Inc. in Norfolk, NE, and a global leader in manufacturing custom screening technology and bulk handling equipment for the grain industry and others. Best known for its Gentle RollTM screener and SidewinderTM belt drag conveyor, the company also provides custom steel fabrication for specific needs or unique situations. With approximately 15 employees on the division’s staff, EBM’s goal is to provide customers with high-quality, efficient equipment and products that are built

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EBM Corporations office and 30,000-sq-ft. manufacturing plant in Norfolk, NE. Photos courtesy of EBM Corporations.

to last without exception. Since its inception 40 years ago, EBM has continued to grow its business across several segments that expand upon on the foundation laid by the Ellsworth family that continues to own and operate the company today. Built on Experience and Passion “Before EBM, my grandfather worked for a supply business that supplied chains and components to different industrial equipment industries, anything from mining to steel milling,” recalls General Manager Andrew Ellsworth, who represents the third generation of Ellsworths managing EBM. “Because of his background in supply – and he’s worked with a lot of different organizations through the years with different products – he became pretty well versed in material handling storage for various industries, not just grain but also fertilizer and other bulk materials.” Based on his knowledge and experience, Ellsworth’s grandfather, Clayton, opened shop under the name Easy Blend Manufacturing or EBM. Initially, he invented a fertilizer blender called the Easy Blend fertilizer mixer, which was designed for use with different hopper slopes, where material is pitched into the hopper and discharged into a leg to mix fertilizer.

By 1976, the company had secured financial partners that helped support the business, but with the farm crisis of the 1980s, EBM’s investors wanted out. So his grandfather took over the company entirely and moved its headquarters from Tilden to Norfolk, where it remains today. Since then, EBM’s business has split into three main divisions: manufacturing, construction, and cranes. Manufacturing On the manufacturing side of the business, Ellsworth says that his grandfather, Clayton, spent a great deal of time

_________________________ “The Gentle Roll is a drum cleaner that is modular, which makes it easy to increase capacity with an existing machine. We can do all kinds of splits and separations based off what the customers wants in a product.” -Andrew Ellsworth, general manager, EBM Construction

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designing one of the company’s flagship products for the feed and grain industry called the Gentle Roll screener. The Gentle Roll was designed to gently move the product through its non-vibrating system to separate by size. Ellsworth says the Gentle Roll is used for cleaning grain, feed pellets, wood pellets, pet food, salt, and soybeans. It also was built for other applications such as fertilizer, minerals, and ground rubber, just to name a few. “The Gentle Roll is a drum cleaner that is modular, which makes it easy to increase capacity with an existing machine. We can do all kinds of different splits and separations based off what the customer wants in a product,” he explains. Often installed in conjunction with the Gentle Roll screener is the Sidewinder belt drag conveyor. This conveyor utilizes a belt instead of a chain to reduce the amount of noise, vibration, required maintenance, and product damage. Features include top loading, full cleanout, ability to run horizontally in both directions at the same time, ability to convey more than one product at a time,

EBM Manufacturing double drum, four screen Gentle Roll screener ready for shipment. It is designed for the removal of fines and overs from edible beans at 3,000 bph.

multiple inlet and discharge options, and lift angles up to 40 degrees. Today, EBM Manufacturing also fabricates custom products including platforms, embeds, receiving hoppers, spouts, U-trough conveyors, and a variety of other grain handling accessories. Other Divisions As a family-owned and -operated business, Ellsworth’s father, Guy, came

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on as a full-time employee after graduating high school in 1981 and developed a passion for the construction side of the industry. Guy loved designing and building equipment, and although the company had taken on some construction work prior to 1981, he focused exclusively on this area of the business. EBM Construction now offers everything from minor repairs to major remodels and new construction,

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_________________________ “Our crane division does mobile lifts for our construction company, and we also do them for other contractors and places in our surrounding areas of northeastern Nebraska, as well as South Dakota and Iowa and as far out as western Nebraska.” -Andrew Ellsworth

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including grain storage and handling facilities, feed mills, feedlot feeding and grain equipment, facility-related office/ warehousing, seed cleaning and bagging, and feed and grain facilities development. The company’s construction projects span the central United States, from Texas to

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North Dakota and from Wyoming to Illinois. “We really have built up the construction side of our business since the eighties,” explains Andrew. “Now, we do some projects with fertilizer, but mostly this is repair work. We troubleshoot material

handling and do repair and maintenance on our customers’ equipment – but our bread and butter is building feed mills and grain elevators.” Finally, Andrew notes that the company’s crane division has grown gradually along with EBM Construction, which increasingly has required the use of cranes for lifting in its construction projects. Ellsworth says that in the early 2000s, EBM purchased its first 70-ton

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crane and decided to spin off and give the new division its own name. “Our crane division does mobile lifts for our construction company, and we also do them for other contractors and places in our surrounding areas of northeast Nebraska, as well as South Dakota and Iowa and as far out as western Nebraska,” he says. Doing It the Right Way One of the things that sets EBM Construction apart from others in the market, according to Ellsworth, is that the company doesn’t treat projects as one-off builds that bring in a paycheck. Rather, it seeks to build relationships with customers to determine what their plans for growth will be and help them realize that vision together. “The best thing I can say about our construction company is that we partner with our customers to give them a value proposition, to create the best product while figuring out what their needs are.” Then, he says, EBM asks the customer a key question: “Where do you see your business going in the future?

_________________________ “Now, we do some projects with fertilizer, but mostly this is repair work. We troubleshoot material handling and do repair and maintenance on our customers’ equipment – but our bread and butter is building feed mills and grain elevators.” -Andrew Ellsworth

_________________________ “Five years down the road, we want to help them figure out what they can do to get more capacity,” he explains. “What can we do to get more storage and so forth? It’s partnering with them on trying to design something that’s a good layout for what they need now but also has room for expansion for the future.” Building relationships on longevity and a dedication to customer service is another

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way EBM has been able to differentiate itself from competitors in the market. “We don’t build for the short term: ‘See you later; have fun,’” he says. “We go back. There are customers that we’ve built a feed mill for 20 years ago, where we still do all their maintenance and repair work. Obviously, they must think that we’re doing something right, because they still call us back to help them out,” he notes. When it comes to quality and warranties, Ellsworth says it all boils down to taking care of customers and doing what’s right – values that were instilled in him from his grandfather, Clayton, and father, Guy, over the years, and that he now imparts to his employees. “It’s doing the right thing, making it right, and going the extra miles for customers, because our customers are what keep us employed,” he says. Of course the same care and concern extends to EBM’s employees as well. “The main thing is for my employees to be safe and work efficiently, but at the end of the day, also to come home, earn a profit, and make our customer happy. That’s our goal,” Ellsworth concludes. Rob Nieminen, contributing writer

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Conclusion EBM Construction has the knowledge, experience, and technology to help you compete in today’s aggressive feed and grain environment.

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