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Larrabee
Corporate Office
5057 Highway 3 West, Cherokee, IA 51012 Phone 712-225-5400 • Toll Free 877-753-5400 • Fax 712-225-5493 |
The Larrabee branch of First Cooperative Association has 11 full-time employees, including the grain department and feed department.
In 1989, Farmers Coop of Larrabee merged with Cleghorn, Cherokee and Marcus, to form First Farmers Coop. During the First Farmers era, to improve the speed of grain receiving at harvest time, First Farmers placed a 5,000 bushel Friesen bin to utilize another dump for soybeans. This allowed us to be able to truck soybeans out during harvest without interfering with producers dumping of soybeans.
First Farmers Coop also put in a new truck scale and closed the fertilizer plant and turned it into soybean flat storage, which made 45,000 bushels extra storage.
On March 1, 1997, First Farmers Coop merged with First Cooperative Association. This merger gave us the opportunity to build more storage at Larrabee. We built a 365,000 bushel steel bin for corn storage. Along with the bin construction, we added another receiving pit and leg, at 10,000 bu. per hour.
In the spring of 1999, First Coop constructed two more steel bins for corn storage, one 365,000 bushel bin and one 490,000 bushel bin. We also increased the West receiving leg to 7,000 bushels per hour. We brought in a Zimmerman dryer from Marathon to increase drying from 900 bushels per hour to 2,000 bushels per hour.
The 3 steel bins equal 1.2 million bushels of storage
Total corn storage equals 1.28 million bushels
Total soybean storage equals 245,000 bushels, for a grand total of 1.5 million bushels storage.
 Larrabee also operates the new feed mill that ties in with the new grain storage. Startup date was April 1,1999, the feed mill is currently averaging 10,000 bu. corn per day, and is currently producing 400 ton of feed per day.
To date the feed mill has ground 3.5 million bushels of corn.
The feed is delivered by three 24 ton semi's and two 18 ton tandem trucks, we also utilize 9 ton feed trucks to get feed delivered in a timely matter. |  |
Larrabee Location
120 Depot Street
Larrabee, IA 51029
Main Line
712-437-2211
FAX Line 712-437-2298
Toll Free Line
800-650-2641 New Feedmill
712-437-2206
New Feedmill FAX:
712-437-2208
Feedmill Toll Free Line
877-527-6455 Contacts:
Eric Myers, emyers@firstcoop.com
Feedmill, larrabee@firstcoop.com Back to Locations |
