Western Grain Marketing leases elevators

BLOOMINGTON, ILLIONIS, US — Western Grain Marketing, LLC (WGM) leased the grain elevators owned by Farmers Elevator Company of Biggs & Easton with over 4 million bushels of grain storage capacity in Biggs and Easton, Illinois, US.

Biggs & Easton has grain sales of 6½ million to 7 million bushels annually. The Biggs & Easton locations will complement the current WGM assets helping to provide a greater level of service to farmers. The lease was effective Sept. 25.

WGM is a joint venture of GROWMARK, Inc.; Sunrise FS; Prairieland FS, Inc.; and West Central FS, Inc. WGM provides grain storage, trucking and grain marketing services through its 21 locations in western Illinois and has a total storage capacity of 36 million bushels with annual grain sales of more than 80 million bushels.

Headquartered in Bloomington, Illinois, GROWMARK is an agricultural cooperative serving almost 400,000 customers across North America, providing agronomy, energy, facility engineering and construction, and logistics products and services, as well as grain marketing and risk management services.