National Ag News
First new soy plant in Michigan in two decades readies for harvest
Michigan’s second soybean processing plant is prepping for its very first harvest season.
Zeeland Farm Services’ Brian Meeuwsen has been overseeing the construction of the facility and tells Brownfield the grain elevator has been taking small deliveries to test equipment and after Labor Day will do the same for the grain drier.
“We plan on filling the grain elevator either with contracted bushels that we already have bought or spot bushels through harvest in anticipation of the plant being ready to start production around November 1st.”
The grain elevator can store about
four million bushels of soybeans and once operational, the plant will process
50 to 60,000 bushels per day. Meeuwsen
says once fully up and running, the plant can process more than 100,000 bushels
per day making it the largest in the state.
