Topflight Grain Cooperative, Inc. is a farmer-owned grain cooperative in the heartland of the USA in the middle of Illinois grain belt.
The rich soils and modern farm practices produce record yields of quality grains.
Founded in 1998
Formed in 1998 as the consolidation of three local grain cooperatives and additional mergers in 2000, 2003 & 2014, Topflight Grain Cooperative serves grain producers in Piatt, Macon, Moultrie, Dewitt, Douglas, Champaign, & Logan counties. Permanent storage capacity of the twelve facilities is 49 million bushels.
12 Year-Round Locations in Central Illinois
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The Decatur processing plants of ADM & Primient are just 25 miles from many of the facilities. Processing plants and ethanol plants near Pekin are just 40 miles from the Logan County elevators; Bloomington, IL processors are just 30 miles away. Gibson City processors and One Earth Energy are only 30 miles from the Seymour elevator. These markets provide many market opportunities for the quality grain grown by the 2,600 stockholders of Topflight Grain. The numerous trucking firms that serve all of Topflight’s grain elevators ensure prompt delivery to meet contract specifications.
Topflight Rain Map
Topflight Central Illinois locations’ Rain Map featuring year-to-date totals of rainfall at 12 Topflight Grain locations.
Topflight Grain facilities at Bement, Milmine and Monticello are located directly on the Norfolk Southern rail main line, allowing shipments of grain into Decatur, movement to the Illinois River, east coast, or the export market. Through a reciprocal agreement, switching on the Illinois Central affords the opportunity for export markets via the Gulf of Mexico. The expanded Topflight Grain facility at Pierson Station is located on a short-line railroad that gives us access to three Class 1 railroads. Those lines: the CSX (Southeast Markets), UP ( Western Markets), and CN serve the Center Gulf export markets. The facility can load up to 110 car shuttle trains.
Illinois Licensed Grain Dealer
Topflight Grain Cooperative, Inc. is a state-licensed grain dealer and participant of the Illinois Grain Insurance Fund.
Illinois Licensed Grain Dealer
Topflight Grain Cooperative, Inc. is a state-licensed grain dealer and participant of the Illinois Grain Insurance Fund.
Trivia: Bon Scott and Brian Johnson were singers in which iconic rock and roll band? (answer below)
Market Recap- Ag futures were mixed to get November started, with the soy complex seeing a good amount of selling throughout the day and starting the week lower while the grains traded in the green for most of the day and closed Monday higher. Tomorrow's midterm elections loom large for the speculative trader from the standpoint that world geopolitics are likely to heat up again following its completion, and this kept volume on the quieter side throughout the day today, along with the fact that new input overall remains slow.
Corn Summary- Corn futures traded to new lows for the move in the overnight session last night, but did it quietly and without a lot of enthusiasm which allowed buyers to come in during the day session and work prices higher by the close. Friday's fund update showed managed money traders have all but liquidated their net-long position they held through the summer, which should coincide with the forming of some sort of seasonal low into the end of the year. Oversold conditions on the charts would also support such a turn-around, but like we talked about last week, it's still likely to take some sort of spark to get any sort of larger up move going, with there just little bullish on the horizon fundamentally today. Neither the US or the world balance sheet is overly tight, and without an El Niño induced weather issue in South America over the next four-five months or the Chinese starting some sort of new buying program, we're just not sure what gets funds to drive the market back higher in the short term.
Soybean Summary- The soy complex cruised to fairly sharp losses to start the new week on Monday, with the beans and meal selling off on fresh speculative long liquidation and the oil following the world energy markets to fairly steep losses also. Macro selling is related to tomorrow's elections and the ideas that the war with Iran is likely to heat back up in the days following, but there is little new today otherwise that wasn't being talked about previously that would've justified today's drop to new lows. US exports are still running well ahead of last year and there's still crop risk related to El Niño in Brazil, which should be supportive on a dip in futures below the $12 level.
Wheat Summary- Wheat futures closed quietly higher to start the week on Monday, amid what continues to be the same fundamental landscape that has been present for weeks now. There was nothing new out of Russia/Ukraine over the weekend as the war drags on, and today's record low export inspection figure for the week makes it hard to argue that any of that lost business is making its way to the US. We see the export situation in the Black Sea as being far from resolved, but if US exports don't get a boost because of it and world trade continues to go elsewhere, then we find it likely that prices continue to decline to a level that would encourage such a scenario occurring.
Outside News Headlines- Crude oil futures down $8.00+/bbl.
Weather Updates- The central and eastern Corn Belt look set to see better rainfall this week was seen through most of the month of the October, as the low pressure system talked about last week is still in the forecast. The cell will work through the central part of the US tonight and into tomorrow, and then looks to veer north into the middle of the week and exit the northeast by the weekend. Rainfall totals for the week are seen anywhere from 1-3", with the best coverage of heavier amounts though expected further north through parts of IA, MN and WI. To the east though, some of the drier areas of eastern IL, IN, OH, and MI could be short-changed from this system, with rainfall totals and coverage much more spotty through these areas. Models continue to see a drier outlook then re-emerging beyond this week's low, with things expected to go back warmer and drier again next week and into the middle of the month. Of note, the West Coast looks to be much wetter than normal in the same period due to the ongoing extension of the Pacific jet-stream. There's still nothing new on the forecast for Brazil, as frontal rains look to continue falling with a fair amount of regularity across the southern and south-central parts of the country, where things are working towards the too-wet side of ideal. To the north, a drier outlook remains in place still this week, with still little sign in the forecast that monsoonal rains are able to develop into mid-month. Argentina's weather looks to remain largely risk-free through the week this week, with temperatures remaining on the cooler side of average while rainfall remains near average. The cooler temps have limited any build up in early-season growing-degree days here, but soil moisture levels across most of the region remain adequate to surplus relative to normal.
Answer: ACDC. Brian replaced Bon after his death in 1980. The band has massive success with both singers.
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Bailey Runyen Grain Originator | Topflight Grain Coop. 101 N. Main St. | Cisco, IL 61830 Phone :: 217-669-2141 Email :: brunyen@tfgrain.com Image ...
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