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.
State Bank of Bement will be passing out Harvest Bags TODAY! from 1:30-3:30pm in Monticello & LaPlace State Bank of Bement will be passing out Harvest Bags TOMORROW! 10/9 from 1:30-3:30pm in Milmine The Prospect Baseball Team will be selling sandwiches Saturday, 10/10 from 10am-2pm in Pierson Olympia FFA will be feeding the farmers a free meal Monday, 10/12 from 4:30pm-6:30pm at both Tabor and Atlanta State Bank of Bement will be passing out Harvest Bags Wednesday, 10/14 from 1:30-3:30pm in Bement United Prairie will be serving lunch Friday, 10/16 from 11am-1pm in Pierson
MARKET SUMMARY: Good morning. Overnight ag trade has been quietly mixed for the most part to start Thursday, with most of the commodity market focus this morning seemingly on the outside markets amid what continues to be wait-and-see type action at the CBOT ahead of tomorrow's monthly supply and demand update. Outside of China, El Niño, and the ongoing geopolitical situations, it's been crop quality this week that has garnered a bulk of the daily trader, with farmers lamenting the impacts wet weather through September had on crops, especially in the west. There are more questions than answers at this point and the final impact won't likely be known for months, but traders are betting today that the effects will be rather negative and that crop sizes are likely to work lower between now and January. Corn futures to start Thursday morning are trading either side of unchanged, soybean futures are trading 3-5 cents lower, and the Chicago wheat market is trading unchanged to a penny higher.
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Crude Oil is up $3.49 at $91.77 US Dollar is up at $102.33 Dow futures are down 238 points at 51,211
WEATHER: The National Hurricane Center has continued to fine-tune the path of Isaias, which has strengthened into a hurricane since yesterday. This morning's 4am update has the storm making landfall around 1am Friday night/Saturday morning and then working its way almost due north through the day Saturday and into Sunday morning. Yesterday afternoon, forecasts had the storm's path veering off to the east, but have pushed it back west this morning. Forecasts into next week then have also remained variable, as similar to this week, the models are struggling with the exact paths of a pair of Tropical Storms currently in the Pacific. The mid-section of the country is likely to get some sort of rainfall out of these systems by the middle of next week, but exact amounts/locations have been all over the place in the model runs and there remains notable differences between the EU and the GFS models.
OTHER HEADLINES: Tomorrow's October WASDE update, according to a Reuters survey of analysts, is expected to show corn yield coming in at an average of 177.7 bu/acre, which would put production at 15.721 bil bu; soybean yields are seen at 52.8 bu/acre, with production at 4.534 bil bu. Ending stocks for corn are estimated at 1.670 bil bu, soybeans at 305 mil bu, and wheat at 721 mil bu. At the world level, corn stocks are seen at 273.8 MMTs, soybean stocks are seen at 123.33 MMTs, and wheat stocks are seen at 276.6 MMTs. The Federal Trade Commission, along with the USDA, launched an investigation this week into farm equipment market practices, including potential anticompetitive conduct, following farmer complaints regarding barriers to equipment purchases and obtaining repair services. The probe is said to be focusing on whether farmers face inflated equipment prices and unnecessary restrictions on keeping machinery operating. Lithuania's Prime Minister said this week that his country was pushing for an EU ban on Russian grain transit through its ports, joining other Baltic states in voicing concern over the situation. "This is an unacceptable situation," said the Prime Minister. He also added that he had been in regular contact with Latvia and that their positions were aligned. Private Black Sea analyst SovEcon this week dropped Russia's 2026/27 wheat production forecast a little less than 1% from their previous estimate to 87.5 MMTs and also raised their production estimate for Ukraine a little less than 2% to 33.4 MMTs on strong early yields. The group cited lower production forecasts for parts of Siberia and the Central Federal District.
EXPORT NEWS: This morning's weekly export sales report, with data for the week ending October 1st, is expected to show corn sales in the week between 600k - 1.7 mil MTs, soybean sales between 450k - 1.2 mil MTs, and wheat sales between 200k-500k MTs.
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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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