Ag co-op to open grain facility in Wisconsin

ALCIVIA, a member-owned agricultural and energy cooperative, has purchased 40 acres and more than 21,000 linear feet of BNSF Railway Co. track in Hager City, Wisconsin, for a new rail loading grain terminal.

The facility will serve grain producers in west-central Wisconsin and southeast Minnesota, ALCIVIA officials said in a press release. In addition to the grain facility, ALCIVIA plans to build a two-bay loading terminal for liquid fertilizer, a dry fertilizer transload facility, a rail liquid propane unload area and storage areas.

The new grain facility will include upright grain storage space for 3.9 million bushels and feature two 4,700-bushel-per-hour grain dryers and three 1,500-bushel capacity dump pits that can move grain at a combined handling speed of 60,000 bushels per hour. A groundbreaking is anticipated this winter with completion expected by March 2025.

Once the new facility is built, ALCIVIA will have three shuttle loading facilities that access the Mississippi and Illinois rivers and are served by BNSF, Canadian Pacific Kansas City and Union Pacific Railroad. All the facilities will tap logistics for domestic corn ethanol plants and soybean crush plants.