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 nineteen facilities is 48 million bushels.
13 Year-Round Locations in Central Illinois
Please click on a Topflight Location below for Staff, Phone & Contact Info
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 13 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.
Monday, October 19, 2026 Morning Markets: Corn: -3. Beans: -1. Wheat: +0. United Prairie will be serving lunch TODAY!! from 11am-1pm in Pierson State Bank of Bement will be passing out Harvest Bags Wednesday, 10/21 from 1:30pm-3:30pm in Bement
MARKET SUMMARY: Good morning. Overnight ag markets to get the new week started have done little to nothing the last several hours, with row crop futures seeing almost no trading ranges and little volume at this writing this morning amid a lack of fresh weekend input and as US harvest progress likely surpasses the 50% done mark in this afternoon's update. We talked about it quite a bit last week, but the October WASDE has led traders to hit pause on further pressing the long side of the space for the time being, with funds looking for new input to either justify sticking with long positions or continue liquidating like has been the case of late. There still exist enough risk points for funds to stay long for now, but money flow to the long side of the markets is notably different today than it was this time four weeks ago. Corn futures to start Monday are trading 1-2 cents lower, soybean futures are trading around a penny lower, and the Chicago wheat market is also trading around a penny lower.
Trivia: What Greek word meaning “I have found it” is often shouted when someone makes a sudden discovery? (answer below)
Crude Oil is down $1.40 at $97.62 US Dollar is down at $101.83 Dow futures are down 119 points at 52,095
WEATHER: US weather forecasts this morning are calling for minimal precip across the region this week while temperatures are expected to be more seasonally warm than was seen the last couple days. The models have a bit of light rainfall for NE/SD/MN and some of the northwestern part of the region the end of this week and into the weekend, but high pressure over the broader eastern half of the country will keep the rest of the Midwest warmer and dry through the week this week. Brazil weather this week looks to see a bit of a shift back to wet south, drier north, as light rains over the central part of the country last week intensify and move back south. Argentina, while cooler than desired, continues to see near-normal rainfall chances throughout most of the country this week, with some areas to the south possibly seeing above average rains.
OTHER HEADLINES: Friday afternoon's Commitment of Traders update from the CFTC showed managed money traders in the week ending October 13th were sellers of 86,481 contracts of corn (+230,877), sellers of 14,169 contracts of soybeans (+237,491) and were sellers of 3,495 contracts of Chicago wheat (-33,038); in the soy products, funds were sellers of 672 contracts of meal (+206,131) and were sellers of 10,119 contracts of oil (+89,328). Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said over the weekend that Ukraine was in talks with Turkey, Egypt, and India on the possibility of opening up civil navigation in the Black Sea, specifically for ag exports. Zelensky also asked the EU to review so-called 'solidarity lanes' that were implemented when the war began and allowed some grain to be exported via EU rails and ports. The situation remains little changed from last week otherwise. The Rosario Grain Exchange in Argentina late last week said that 2025/26 farmer grain sales have already reached more than 105 MMTs, which is a record for this point in the season. The figure is up some 25% from average sales levels during the last five years and is nearly 6 million tons above the previous record, largely on record crop harvests. Chinese government data released this week showed domestic pork production in the country from January through September at 45.08 MMTs, which is up more than 3% from the same period a year ago as farmers ramped up slaughter to try and reduce excess inventories. China's pig herd was seen at 425.33 million head as of the end of September, down 2.6% from a year ago.
EXPORT NEWS: 114,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to China during the 2026/2027 marketing year 261,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2026/2027 marketing year
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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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