Grain Journal - July/August 2008 - (Page 52) Capturing the Carries NEW STEEL TANK GIVES MORE FLEXIBILITY TO OHIO RAIL LOADER Custar OHIO Deshler Farmers Elevator Co. Deshler, OH • 419-278-8305 Founded: 1916 Storage capacity: 3 million bushels at three locations Annual volume: 8 million bushels Annual revenues: $40 million Number of members: 1,200 Number of employees: 26 Crops handled: Corn, soybeans, soft red winter wheat Services: Grain handling and merchandising, agronomy Key personnel: • Mark Sunderman, general manager • Dan Wensink, location manager • Gary Woltmann, superintendent • Randy Tietje, merchandiser Deshler Farmers Elevator Co. added the 425,000-bushel steel tank at far right to its rail-loading elevator in Custar, OH. Photos by Ed Zdrojewski. Supplier List Aeration system .. Rolfes@Boone Bin sweep The GSI Group Catwalk .. Hawthorne-Seving Inc. Contractor Elevator Services & Storage, Inc. (ESSI) Conveyor (belt) Hi Roller Conveyors Conveyor (drag) The Essmueller Company Engineering ESSI Grain temperature system Rolfes@Boone Millwright ESSI Steel storage The GSI Group The area of northwest Ohio on the market and take advantage surrounding the Deshler Farmof carries during the harvest season. ers Elevator Co. rail terminal in “It also lets us keep our doors Custar, OH (419-669-3069), open longer in the fall,” has relatively little on-farm storSunderman adds. age. The cooperative’s roughly As a result, the cooperative 1,200 members rely heavily on board voted to add 425,000 the company for storage, hanbushels of upright steel storage dling, and merchandising. at the Custar terminal on the “We always have a lot of grain CSX railroad, bringing total storMark Sunderman on hand,” says General Manager age capacity at that location to Mark Sunderman, who joined nearly 2.5 million bushels. the company early in 2006 after serving as The cooperative took bids on the project a location manager for Farmers Commisearly in 2007 and awarded the contract to sion Co. in Kenton, OH. Elevator Services & Storage, Inc. (ESSI), The more storage available to the cooperaBeaverdam, OH (419-643-5111), based on tive, the more it’s able to take a long position the quality of the contractor’s work and competitive pricing. Cosntruction on the $1 million project began in May 2007 and was completed by Pair of 40-hp Rolfes@Boone centrifugal fans supply 1/10 cfm per bushel of air. 52 GJ J/A Big 30,000-bph overhead Essmueller drag conveyor takes grain from existing facilities out to the new tank.
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