AURELIA

The Aurelia location of the First Cooperative Association was formed on February 1, 1907, as the Farmers Elevator Company. It was reorganized as the Farmers Cooperative Company in February of 1937. On March 1, 1997, Farmers Cooperative Company became a part of the First Cooperative Association.

The Aurelia location has eleven full time employees. 

Services and products offered at Aurelia are:

Feed

Liquid protein storage and delivery are also big part of our feed business.

Agronomy

Dry blend plant with storage capacity of 2100 ton. Sales Liquid28% with storage of 90 ton. Farm chemicals along with custom application. Equipment consists of 1 - Stomper used for fertilizer and lime spreading, 1- Rowgator, 1- Air Max, 1-Dempster. Seed corn and soybean seed, along with grass seed are also sold. NH3 and equipment along with storage of 90 ton.

Grain

Total storage capacity is 3.491 million bushels. Drying capacity of 3,000 bushel per hour. Grain receiving has exceeded 148,000 bushel of farmer grain in one day. 50 car load out facilities with average load out time of eight hours. Many building projects have occurred over the years, which include the West annex to the Whitney house in 1969, the East annex in 1973 and East elevator complex in 1979. Office was built I 1975. Feedmill was built in 1958 and remodeled in 1978 and 1990. In 1997 a new mixer surge hopper were installed. In 1995 the super flat storage building with one million bushel capacity was built. In 1996, the East house receiving was updated and in 1997-98 work was done in the West complex.

Petroleum

Aurelia has a cardtrol system and also is the petroleum bulk plant for the Central Region. Bulk fuel plants in Alta, Aurelia, and Schaller were closed this past year to combine to one fully modernized and environmentally safe location in Aurelia. This plant was put into service in the fall of 2000. Capacities of the new facility are Diesel at 220,000, Gasohol at 30,000, Unleaded at 60,000, and Kerosene at 10,000. Packaged petroleum products are also available at the Aurelia location

Robert Neppl
Branch Manager

  rneppl@firstcoop.com

Contacts:
Bob Neppl, rneppl@firstcoop.com
Jodi Vock, jvock@firstcoop.com

Doug Davis, Pork Enterprise Consultant
dldavis@landolakes.com
voice mail: 712-434-2297
fax: 712-434-5977

Aurelia Location
100 South Main St. 
Aurelia, IA 51005 
Main Phone
712-434-2297 
FAX Line 712-434-5977 
Toll Free Line
800-432-2297 
Feedmill Line
712-434-2344

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